| No Matter What | | | | finds that it just makes her life worse. |
| Jordana Ryan | | | | Four years after running away, Cassandra returns |
| Amira Press (2007) | | | | home to face the consequences of her decisions. She |
| ISBN 9781934475041 | | | | wants her daughter to have a good life and to know |
| Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/07) | | | | her father. Brenden and Cassandra have to struggle to |
| ""No Matter What" is a very deep book. The | | | | get past the anger that he feels from her leaving him |
| characters have to deal with overcoming some very | | | | and not letting him know about his daughter. |
| painful situations and emotions. This is the type of | | | | Cassandra has to deal with not feeling worthy of a |
| novel that you will want to read with your friends so | | | | man like Brenden. Other relationships also need healing. |
| that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of | | | | "No Matter What" is a book about healing old wounds. |
| introspection and really makes you think about what it | | | | Cassandra and Brenden both have to deal with |
| would be like to have faced everything that | | | | serious consequences of actions that they have taken |
| Cassandra has at such a young age. It is very hard to | | | | as a result of their grief from their past. Brenden's own |
| judge someone who has gone through so much. Enjoy | | | | mother abandoned him at age five. When Cassandra |
| this novel." | | | | left him, he did everything he could to avoid being in a |
| Since age ten, Cassandra has had a difficult life. | | | | committed relationship. He hurt a lot of women with his |
| Leaving a candle burning in her home, her house burnt | | | | actions. He too must heal now. |
| down and her parents died. Carrying the weight of | | | | "No Matter What" is a very deep book. The |
| blame and guilt at not having been the one to have | | | | characters have to deal with overcoming some very |
| died has affected all of Cassandra's relationships. | | | | painful situations and emotions. This is the type of |
| During her early teens she began dating Brenden. At | | | | novel that you will want to read with your friends so |
| seventeen, she discovers that she is pregnant. She | | | | that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of |
| doesn't want to ruin Brenden's future or be a further | | | | introspection and really makes you think about what it |
| burden on those who have taken her in, so she runs | | | | would be like to have faced everything that |
| away. Trying to raise her daughter as a single parent | | | | Cassandra has at such a young age. It is very hard to |
| is really rough. Cassandra finds herself engaging in | | | | judge someone who has gone through so much. Enjoy |
| risky, promiscuous behavior as an escape, yet she | | | | this novel. |