Aug 28, 2009 0
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
I would have to say that this isn’t one of her strongest books. And although I love her stories, they are beginning to get repetitive for me. I liked the story of Auden and Eli and how we have to all take advantages of any second chance we get in life. That quitting hurts us more than helps us. But other than that, there was no real umph to the story. Plus I find it ironic that the cover art is a preppy guy (not Eli) and a girly girl in a pink dress (not Auden) are supposed to give a sense of what the book is about. The girl hates pink in the book and it’s all over the cover.
But the thing I love most about her books is how all the other characters from her other books overlap each other and you feel that they aren’t in just a vacuum of a novel, but in a series of novels, a world created by Sarah. I think that has become my favorite part of reading her books, finding who else is in it. So, Macy, Jason and Wes from The Truth About Forever are mentioned. As well as the key necklace from Lock and Key. Kind of cool. The Last Chance Diner, Morgan and Isabel from Keeping the Moon. Are there any more? If there are, I didn’t catch them…
I liked the movie. It was funny and sad and I almost cried at the end when they finally got the book published. But I still don’t 100% get the point of blogs. And I didn’t really get what the point of the movie was. We save ourselves through the inspirations that others provide us with. But that’s nothing new really. It was an interesting story and maybe most of all it was about cooking and its powers. But for me it was really just an interesting story.