Book Friday, Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
7 August 2009
I believe this has been mentioned on here before, but I’m a huge Sarah Dessen fan. Particularly of This Lullaby. She’s released four books since then, and each one I’ve been like, “It’s good … but it’s not This Lullaby.” Reading her latest, Along for the Ride, evoked the same reaction.
Auden, the narrator of Along for the Ride, is very loveable. I spent most of the story wanting to hug her and hand her a couple Tylenol PM. (Auden has sleep issues.) I liked Eli a lot, I liked the secondary characters, the plot, and the resolution, it just … it wasn’t This Lullaby. I don’t know if the problem here is Sarah or me. Likely me because she’s … Well, she’s Sarah Dessen. She’s the queen of the quiet YA books. This book hit number one on the New York Times best seller list. Clearly, I just have attachment issues.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
Perhaps . . . then again, a lot of my fave authors (yourself included) grab me more and more with each book, even though I adored the first. Maybe it’s a little from column A, a little from column B. ;-)
Posted by Roseanna on 7 August 2009