along for the ride by sara dessen

now i have recently disscovered the world of sara dessen and let me say, i am in love! this is the first sara dessen book that i read and i loved it. i will admit that the first few chapters were kind of slow but once you get into it there is so much to each character and it's just an all around amazing book. i have recently found that i like fiction books that don't have sparkley vampires and huge wolf dogs in them very much. especially ones where the love/romance isn't the main theme. with this book there is romance between the main character (ill touch on that more in just a minute) but it's mostly about summer and finding yourself and learning to just go along for the ride. in this book auden (main character) has just graduated high school and is set for college and so sure of her future until she decides to go to her dad and step mothers house for the summer in a small beach town. she spends the summer working at heidi's (step mom) little clothing store and starts making friends there and learning more about being a teenager. then she meets eli and he shows her that it isn't too late to have the fun childhood that she missed out on and that people really can change no matter her mother thinks. oh ya! i should probably add that her mother is a writer/scholor/mean person (in the begining) and she makes a point that she thinks people can't change. but throughout the entire book the characters are changing and discovering who they really are and what they really want to do. so when auden meets eli she decides to take his advice and go on a 'quest' to have the childhood she always wanted.

now i want to talk about their relationship. when auden first starts hanging out with eli she doesn't have the intention of dating him. in fact at first she doesn't really like him and she thinks that he doesn't like her. and then they realize that they have something in common, they are both insomniacs. so they spend their nights reagaining her childhood and eventually it leads to more. if you want to know all the juicy details of auden, her new baby sister and her crazy family you HAVE to read this book! i am currently reading another sara dessen book called just listen and will have a review for that sometime next week since i haven't really gotten that far into it yet. all of her books are available at barnes and noble and on the nook and kindle! if you have read along for the ride feel free to share what you thought of it!

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