She loves being in the newspaper office even though it is separating her from her best friend Shelby who is spending their "last summer" partying and drinking. Sam D'Angelo is spending the summer before her senior year working for the local newspaper as an intern. This story was sweet and cute and, oh so, satisfying. Laugh-out-loud funny, briskly paced, and filled with memorable and quirky characters, Famous Last Words is fantastic pleasure read. I'm kicking myself for overlooking her first novel, How My Summer Went Up in Flames, which I will definitely be reading. I highly recommend this sophomore offering from Jennifer Salvato Doktorski.
I cringed when Sam embarrassed herself, got herself reprimanded, or something so obvious to the reader went right over her head (especially in the romance department!), but that also means I couldn't help but cheer for her when she was congratulated, loved, and finally, finally realized that everything she needed (romantically and otherwise) was right there for her to grab on to. When Sam finds something that both challenges and suits her - writing for the Herald Tribune - she flourishes. She's a hard worker, rarely gets into trouble, is protective of her much wilder and social best friend, Shelby, and is generally shy and awkward in the situations Shelby thrives in. I easily identified with the main character of Famous Last Words, Sam. This summer, she's breaking rules, keeping secrets, and learning, little by little, that a summer of writing obituaries might just teach her how to live. And Sam, usually reserved and shy, is finding her niche and her previously small social circle is expanding. There's no lazing around the pool with her best friend Shelby, who just doesn't seem to understand why Sam works so much and has no interest in their usual summer activities. This summer is the beginning of something different for Sam. The newspaper office is filled with quirky characters, from Harry, her armadillo-loving boss, to Tony, known as Coma Boy to the rest of the newspaper staff and summer crush to Sam.
Among her other "intern scum" duties, Sam shares obituary duty with fellow intern AJ, a sarcastic college intern. The novel follows 16-year old Sam, a summer intern at a local newspaper, the Herald Tribune.
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski's young adult novel Famous Last Words is one of those novels that makes you suddenly laugh aloud in a quiet room and leaves you with a warm, satisfied feeling upon finishing.
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