"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"

I have long been a fan of Deb Caletti's (http://www.debcaletti.com/index.php). When I first became a librarian almost five years ago, her novel Honey Baby Sweetheart had just been placed on the TAYSHAS reading list. After reading it, I was in love with this author.

There are certain times in your life when you can completely identify with a character or a feeling. Caletti's writing is chalked full of these personal truths. I think that is why she connects so well with her audience.

Since Honey Baby Sweetheart, Caletti has gone on to pen The Queen of Everything, Wild Roses, The Nature of Jade, and her latest addition to the collection: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. Usually with authors, they write a hit and miss, but I have yet to read a Caletti miss. She is AMAZING!!

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye is richly complex with human emotions. The main character, Indigo Skye, is a high school student who waitresses. To hear her describe waitressing changes how you treat people!! It also makes you exhausted. When Indigo gets a check/tip from a customer to the tune of $2.5 mil, she is shocked. The rest of the book is the roller coaster ride that money can be. Indigo loses herself, finds herself, and learns the life lesson about what is important (people and relationships) and how to keep it.

Normally, I would tell you to go and check this out immediately from your library (because any time I can plug a library, why not!!). However, with this book, with all of Deb Caletti's books, you need to buy them. And you need to read them with a pen handy. The way she crafts a sentence will resonate within you (no matter your age). You will want to underline the truths she buries in her work. You will want to unearth the little treasures and store them in your memory (or your quote book, as the case may be).