Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Along for the Ride details the story of Auden's summer as she leaves her stuck-up mother and goes to live with her father, step-mother and baby half-sister Thisbe. Auden has followed her mother her whole life: studying and school--no time for being a kid. While Auden is very book smart, she majorly lacks street smarts, and finds herself in some undesirable places. She is forced to make some friends, which she's never done. She also encounters a boy who has a dark past, and won't talk to anyone but her. Since neither of them sleep at night, they spend their nights together, going on a quest to give Auden a childhood. Auden is trying to escape the pressures from her parents and finds herself learning a lot of things that she missed out on.

This was a pretty fast read, despite being a longer book. The characters felt real, but I was left longing for a bit more--maybe just because I didn't want it to end!

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