About the book:
✥Series/Trilogy/Stand-Alone, etc: Stand Alone
✥Release Date: April 22, 2008
✥Page Count: 422✥ Edition: Paperback
✥Genre(s): YA, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction/Realistic Fiction
✥Date(s) Read: 9/15/17-9/17/17
✥Rating: Book: 4/5 Audio: 4/5 Narrator: Rebecca Soler
✥Website: Sarah Dessen
My Thoughts:
Audio:
I liked her. A maturity to her voice that I enjoyed instead of the childlike/childish voice that's typical with YA narrators. I'm not so much complaining about younger narrators as I am just saying that I found her voice refreshing.
Book:
The first and for a long time, the only Sarah Dessen book I read was The Truth About Forever and I loved it. For whatever reason though, I couldn't get into the others I had tried, yet, I refused to give up. I somewhat went looking for others recently, knowing I'd be getting audible for at least a couple of months. That's when I found this one and Along For The Ride (I haven't read this one as of this post).
Well, with the audio, I got through this book and happily so!
Now, it's not a favorite but I did enjoy it. I enjoyed watching the growth of Ruby, Nate and the others in this book. There was no insta-love. Not even the insta-like. Both had that slow build up which was great. Even the gradual grow into friendships. It's not so much that I have an issue with insta-love, because I know that many times, insta-love, is just strong infatuation that can eventually really grow into love or, it can go into another direction (Whichever that direction may be for those people).
Ruby, for as frustrating as she could be, she wasn't annoying with it. It was an understandable frustration. You knew the why of what she was doing and why she thought the way she did. She usually learned from her mistakes pretty quickly. Which was good. So many of us don't always learn that quickly but then you have some who do, fortunately, and Ruby happened to have been written to be one of those that learned quickly. She appeared to have a lot of street smarts with that I'm still human and will screw up types of mistakes along with it. I loved Jamie and Cora. I loved Jamie's personality and how sweet he was. He was able to get real with Ruby at least once in the book but still able to let her know that he was proud of her when he saw that she was making positive changes in her life. I loved Cora's realness with her feelings and imperfections. You could tell she just got it when it came to Ruby because, well, she knew what it was to be raised by their mother and all that entailed. The loyalty you began to see come about with family and friendships, I loved about Ruby.
There is a lot more I'm sure I could say about this book if I just took the time to sit and think on it more but that would probably end up in a lot of spoilers that I do my best not to give, even the small ones (Which I know I have given some small ones lately in other posts about books). I will say that if you haven't read this book, please do so. Don't go into it expecting a blockbuster hit when it comes to books but just go into it hoping that you enjoy it at least little bit.
(usually, the covers of books you see in the blog, are the covers I have)
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