Book Review ~ Along For The Ride By Sarah Dessen

Book review - Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

Start Read : September 28,2013 - Finished Read : October 7,2013

Compendious From Goodreads :

It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.

A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town. Together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree teenage life she’s been denied; for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.

Since everyone has read Sarah Dessen's books.I felt left out?Because I haven't read a single one of her books,so I went to my local library and checked out this book : Along For The Ride. (Always the library,if you haven't noticed,I don't buy books.Hahahaha.)Very interesting book,so much that I disliked to leave this well-built world.

Non-spoiler Book Review :

Very interesting and awesome Book.Love Sarah Dessen!The way she portrays the main character on how she doesn't have a social life and her world building in this book was very imaginable.This is absolutely,one world I hate to leave!It is really hard to tell people about this book without spoilers,but this book is about this one girl,named Auden who never had a social life.She doesn't sleep at night,but she sleeps in the morning,kind of like a vampire.But oh,don't worry.This isn't a supernatural book.Over the summer,She goes over to her father's house,where his house is located in a beach town.There,she gets a job at Clementine's store and from there on,she gets greeted into this unfamiliar social life.This book teaches alot of lesson!Sorry,wanted to mention that.Totally,read this book!

JUMP TO WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE CHARACTERS/TEASERS/QUOTES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED.THE SPOILER REVIEW IS AFTER THIS.

Warning - Spoiler!

Reading Process - I had marked very little pages :

Page 176 - "Maybe it's a guy thing," he said. "Fine,don't call it a quest. Call it chicken salad,I don't care.My point is,I'm in but within reason. That's all I'm saying." Chicken Salad?Seriously?Hahaha!Very funny and sarcastic!

Page 208 - "Who says you have to be either smart or pretty,or into girly stuff or sports?Life shouldn't be about the either/or.We're capable of more than that,you know?" Woah,Sooo true.That just taught me a lesson.

Page 243 - "You're always a kind around your parents," he replied. "Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance. You know what I'm saying?" Yea,I know what you're saying even though I don't remember a time where my parents acted like children.Haha.

Page 260 - "Then you didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference." Life Lesson right there!There's a difference between opting out and failing!

Page 323 - So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride. Oooh,So that's where the title came from.Creative <3

Page 336 - "I had my whole life mapped out."
"So what happened?"

"I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all." That's sad,but there's always a new future ahead of you that's different from what you mapped out!

Review :

Ummm,Seriously.Sorry.Haha.No spoiler review.I guess that..um...nothing out of the ordinary that I really want to rant about....

(No Spoiler)What I think about the characters :

• Eli : Very funny boy.Favorite guy character out of this stand alone book.I loved how he's on this "Quest" for a social life for Auden.
• Auden : Umm..I liked her as the main character,after all, We're in her head.She doesn't have a social life.So it's understandable that she doesn't know what to do.Towards the end though,She totally changed.Maybe I mean that as a bad thing,maybe I mean that as a good thing.(No spoilers!)
• Jake : He's funny.Hahahaha.
• Maggie : She's like the smart little girl.Lol.She's also going to Defriese(If that's the correct way to spell it).Woah.Surprising!

Teasers : 

"She's a new mom," Mrs.Stock said, still looking down at Isby. "She's exhausted."

Quotes : 

"Then you didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference."

 "Who says you have to be either smart or pretty,or into girly stuff or sports?Life shouldn't be about the either/or.We're capable of more than that,you know?"

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