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Release date United States. United States. Screen Arcade. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Some books are incredibly hard to write.
Most are, actually. But this one, for me, was a little escape once in a while, and I was more grateful for it than I expected.
I stole half hours here, afternoons there, taking what I could get and using it to get more, and then more, on the page. And you know what?
Somehow, it just worked. So I might be surprised to find myself here, with a new novel, so soon after the last one. But more than anything, I am grateful. This is the story I was clearly ready to tell. Sarah Dessen Book Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Along For The Ride. Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. As long as it's one more, you're all good.
Introspective, but not preachy. Innocent, but not immature. Real, but not pretentious. My only complaint--and this is just a personal thing--is that "Jesus" was used as kind of a curse word several times when "Jeez" or something else just as innocuous could have been easily substituted. I think this was noticeable because there was absolutely no cursing at all. If it was mixed in among other "language", it might not have stuck out so obviously to me.
Just saying. View 2 comments. Jul 01, Helga rated it really liked it. A lot of people say that Sarah Dessen uses the same plot, the same idea of a teenage girl meeting a boy, who changes her life, with who she hangs out more and more and then there is a conflict a lot of time happening because of her old life Along for the Ride is my favourite book.
Its one of those books you can just read into and enjoy parts A lot of people say that Sarah Dessen uses the same plot, the same idea of a teenage girl meeting a boy, who changes her life, with who she hangs out more and more and then there is a conflict a lot of time happening because of her old life Its one of those books you can just read into and enjoy parts that you liked even after you read it.
The book is about a girl called Auden. Her parents are divorced and she lives with her mom. The divorce effected her very much and so she fell into studying,learning She never did anything social or enjoyed her childhood and now to think of it she almost skipped it.
But that years summer, she goes to her Dad who lives in Colby with a women who he has a child from. Auden meets this guy called Eli, she doesnt even really know him, but they spend a lot of their nights together as they both stay up late Auden because before the divorce her parents were up fighting late at night making up for the stuff that she never did in her childhood.
But then her Dad and the women fight, her dad moves out for a "break". This brings up a lot of Audens past and she is going back into studying, learning But then she realizes how much he means to her, but can Eli forgive her? I would definitely advice you to read this book! I also think that a lot of people can relate to the story. I just loved it Mar 01, Laura rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , favorites , , fav-characters , , Edit: 4.
No idea why I rated it 3 stars back in ! Click here to see this review and others on my blog Reading With Daniella I have really liked, if not loved, every Sarah Dessen book that I have read, and Along for the Ride was no exception. It is no surprise that I was in love with the writing style of this book. Sarah Dessen has such an admirable way with words.
I don't think I could ever tire of reading her stories. I will forever continue picking up her books and I am sure that I will continue falling in love with everything that she produces Click here to see this review and others on my blog Reading With Daniella I have really liked, if not loved, every Sarah Dessen book that I have read, and Along for the Ride was no exception.
I will forever continue picking up her books and I am sure that I will continue falling in love with everything that she produces.
Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. Especially then.
It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.
It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in. I believe there are three books that have been chosen, but Along For The Ride will be coming out first. As always, I adored the references to Sarah Dessen's other books! I always get such a ridiculous thrill from it!! Jason from The Truth About Forever was mentioned and eventually made an appearance.
He was just as awful and annoying as before. There was also a mention of Wes from The Truth About Forever, or as Jason called him, "the juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo". Ruby's key necklaces from Lock and Key made a quick and subtle appearance, as did World of Waffles, which has come up in many of her books. I love how smoothly Sarah Dessen manages to slip in these little mentions of other people, things and events from her previous books that are so discreet that only fans of hers would notice.
However, when we do, it is so incredibly special and exciting! It is one of the many, many things that make her work so amazing and fun to read. I'm actually really happy that I waited until now to read this book.
It takes place the summer after Auden's high school graduation and she and most of her new friends are enjoying their last summer before they go to university, which is the same situation that I'm currently in. I also very much enjoyed the actual setting of the story.
I know that Sarah Dessen has set a few of her other books in the town of Colby, but this was the first one that I read. I very much enjoyed exploring the cute little town along with Auden, I can't wait to see more of it in her other books! Unsurprisingly, I fell in love with the cast of characters that we were introduced to. I will say that they seemed a little bit flatter than some of the other side characters that Sarah Dessen has included in her other books, such as Saint Anything or The Truth About Forever, but they were lovable and fun nonetheless.
I could strongly identify with Auden in some ways and understood and related to the quest that she was going on to make up for lost time in her childhood and teenage years. This was something that I've never really seen spoken about in many YA books, especially since many books seem to pretend that school and homework have little influence on your life, don't even get me started on how much that annoys me , but Auden's feelings were all too familiar to me.
She made me feel a little more understood, which is a quality that I will always admire of many of Sarah Dessen's characters. I really enjoyed the watching the relationship between Auden and Eli bloom. Eli was quiet and reserved, but he was also funny and surprisingly sweet.
I loved seeing how great he was with baby Thisbe; it was adorable! There truly is something about nighttime that makes everything, even the most mundane tasks, feel extra special and exhilarating.
Being awake at night when most of the world around you is asleep and completely unaware is a magical feeling for me and I loved how it was worked into the story. I'm honestly so jealous; I wish I had somebody to go on nighttime adventures with!! I would also really love to read another book involving the characters going on midnight adventures, so if you know of any good ones, please recommend them to me!
I would have really liked to have seen more of Eli and Auden together at the Beach Bash and then some of their relationship afterward. I honestly feel like there could have been more development between the two of them in general throughout the story. There are still so much that I don't know about Eli and I would have enjoyed seeing more sides of him. With this being said, Sarah Dessen's stories are always so much more than a simple romance. The book included personal growth not only for the protagonist, Auden, but many of the secondary characters as well.
There are friendships and interesting familial relationships explored in addition to the romance. Another element of the book that I really enjoyed was the relationship between Auden's father and Heidi. I was surprised by how invested I became in their marriage. Her father was truly one of the most infuriating characters that I have ever read about. He was selfish and treated his wife horribly!
She was struggling to care for their newborn baby on her own but he did nothing at all to help her because he insisted that he was to busy working on his novel and needed his sleep.
Heidi was such a sweet, caring and selfless lady and I was so proud when she finally started standing up for herself to Auden's father.
I was so happy to see things hopefully working out at the end for the sake of Heidi and the baby, as well as Auden. Auden's mother also really ticked me off, but I feel like she has begun to redeem herself. In summary, this wasn't necessarily my favourite Sarah Dessen book, but I really enjoyed it and would most certainly recommend it to anyone looking for a summery contemporary romance that packs a punch.
Mar 27, laaaaames rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. One star because the prose is lovely. Another because, I mean, I finished it. Alas, it is not to be. I liveblogged reading this for a friend, so instead of writing up AGAIN why this book made me so furious and frustrated, I'll just copy and paste for you: pg.
This is a general complaint, but I think Sarah Dessen should have written the book about Heidi because that is clearly what she cares about more. I had this problem with the Megan McCafferty books as well, but I hate books where girly-girls are to be mocked and patronized and feminists are to be mocked and patronized, because it is such bullshit that there is a respectable space where women are allowed to exist, where the societal conventions aren't taken too far but where feminism is for lesbians and harpies.
And I fucking hate it. I fucking hate it too because I think it's such a real thing, not just in literature, I see it all the time. Let's laugh at the Elle Woods of the world but let's laugh at self-identifying feminists too. I hate being expected to remember people from all other Sarah Dessen books.
I feel like I'm reading fanfiction for a series I never watched. I hate this self-referential bullshit. God I'm saying bullshit a lot. I'm not sure why it's so awful Auden's mom came to town with the hot grad student. Or at all. Mothers are allowed to have sex lives. It's generally how they became mothers. Scientists have done studies. I'm sorry, but "hot dog party" sounds more like a "sausage party" to me. OK I finished it while out and away from my computer, but, anyway, other issues: I hate the implication that the only way to truly let people into your life and not be a lonely bitch is romantic attachment.
I also hate the idea that you're either a girl who is partially girly and details her life's minutiae or you are a lonely bitch. I don't even get why the mom is so lonely. I don't know many women who don't have a group of friends, unless they are awful people. Even serious academics hang out with other serious academics or writers or researchers or whatever else.
Also: hanging out with a bunch of grad students who think you're awesome and want to discuss literature with you? Sounds pretty good. Sounds like a social life to me. HATE that Heidi and the dad end up together after all. He is awful. He had so much more to learn and yet that is mainly glossed over. I mean, men fare so much better in the Dessenverse. Also confused about how Heidi understands Auden's mom because she was a lonely bitch once too. Uh, except she is I don't think you really had time, Heidi.
Dessen really seems confused about when life happens, or at least that's how I see it. Eli is fine and all but does he have much to him besides biking and helping Auden with HER quest? If this was backwards, I would call a book sexist for making a girl exist primarily to help a dude find out who HE is. I want more. It's not fair to Eli, also I can accept why she'd spend time with him but I never felt their relationship was actually justified to me.
He's 18 and sleeps with girls who he thinks are hot. I thought that was View all 12 comments. I liked Auden even though she could be a hard person to understand at times, but, hey, so am I most of the time. I keep repeating myself but that's what really connects me with the story and Sarah Dessen always delivers great family dynamics even though both of her parents are selfish but insecure idiots here that develops over time.
I loved the 3. I loved the supporting characters - Auden's group of friends at work and Auden's step-mom and step-sister. What bothered me is that Eli is most definitely not explored enough as a character which led to me not really warming up to him even though he's a cute night owl, but still and not feeling the spark between him and Auden that much. But I really liked the story itself and Sarah's writing style, as always.
Auden is one of Sarah's better protagonists, in my opinion. This may not be my favourite Sarah Dessen book but it's definitely in the top 5. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough. Auden and Eli as a couple left me pretty cold, but I loved their personal growth and their relationships with the supporting cast. Are those Barbie dolls on the cover?
I will never see this cover the same. May 08, Drew rated it really liked it Shelves: contemporary , romance , young-adult. Another great installment to the contemporary genre. I didn't think this book was quite as good as Just Listen by Sarah Dessen, but once again I was blown away by this author's ability to take an ordinary character in an ordinary situation and make me care about them so deeply - to truly make me feel the love, loss, and growth going on in that character's life.
Now, true to my expectations of bright pink covers and fluffy titles, this book is a romance, but it's so much more than just a "boy meets girl" story.
The plot starts off by introducing Auden, who has a strained relationship with both of her divorced parents - her business-minded mom who just wants what's best for Auden a. When Auden decides to stay at her dad's beach house for the summer, she is thrown into a whole new world.
Her dad and stepmom are having problems, she doesn't know how to fit in with the other girls in town, and her baby sister can't seem to stop crying. With her life so out of control, Auden starts taking sleepless trips out at night, where she meets Eli, a loner who owns a bike shop.
Auden finds herself opening up to Eli over late-night coffee, though she won't admit to him her biggest secret: she can't ride a bike. I love how Sarah Dessen does romance differently from other authors - she lets us get to know the main character before the love interest is introduced. It took a while for Auden to meet Eli, and by the time she did, I knew all of Auden's flaws, struggles, and dreams before she was even thinking about romance.
I have a problem with the way most YA romance is written. Usually authors will introduce the main character and love interest at the same time, so we can't really get to know the narrator, because they're constantly by their crush's side, or if they're alone, they're blinded by their infatuation for that person.
Sarah Dessen introduces her characters as independent individuals before they get into a relationship, and that way, we can have a deeper understanding of them. Along for the Ride had a strong romance, heartfelt characters, and a page turning plot. If you're looking for a perfect summer read, then you've come to the right place. I can't wait to pick up my next Sarah Dessen book. View 1 comment. Sep 07, Arlene rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , read , ya-contemporary.
Along for the Ride, by Sarah Dessen, is a fun and enjoyable read. I have to admit, at first I could not stand the main character, Auden. She was self-centered, clueless about others feelings, snobbish and down-right annoying. However, all that altered by mid-book and the story took a sharp turn down Enjoyable Avenue.
The story is about Auden who decides to spend the summer before her college freshman year in the beach town called Colby, where her father now lives with his new wife and newborn baby. When Auden arrives in Colby, it is obvious she has no intention of bonding with anyone or making any friends during her stay. The summer she spends in Colby drastically changes her way of thinking and acting, and it is refreshing to see her transformation.
I really enjoyed this book, but it took me a while to get there. Great book that I recommend as a light read.
View all 10 comments. I don't have anything too, too negative to say, but I also don't have anything super positive to say either.
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