Book Report: Girls In Trucks

This was one of my summer beach books; the kind that are easy reads, but don't really add anything to your life. While the cover was cute and the book summary was enticing, I didn't really enjoy the book.

The main character- Sarah - is a girl raised in the debutant southern society, and doesn't like it. All she wants to do is run away with a boy and have fun instead of being in 'appropriate' dance class or learning how to drink her tea. Sarah goes to college up north and ends up becoming a wild child and involved in one troubled relationship after another - in complete contrast to the rules she was taught as a girl. And when she comes home, she understands that her family was only pretending to live by the rules as well.

I liked this book up until Sarah left for college. I thought the author did a great job of building scenes of the debutant society and enjoyed the character build up. It was a shame she spent the bulk of the book on cyclical relationship suffering and depressing wild-child behaviors - the book had a lot of potential. When the author returns to the south at the end, you could feel the warmth coming back to the book; but cut it short.

Perhaps its the sheltered life I grew up in and maintain for myself, but I can't imagine ever throwing myself away like she does. She seems to not care about herself or her own life, and has no goals except finding some sort of romatic 'high'. I can imagine others enjoying this book - and did until it left the south.