This story about Auden was another great book by Sarah Dessen. Again, she had the predictable storyline, but was able to pull it off as usual. As all her stories are, Auden experiences some problems, in this story, it’s with her parents. Her father and mother is divorced, but her father and her mother are still causing her problems. Heidi, her new stepmother, just had a baby, but the dad doesn’t really care. He just ignores all the baby problems and works on his books. Auden, however, is there to see her father’s carelessness, and helps Heidi. As she does, she meets three (I believe there were three) girls who work for Heidi and teach her about being a regular, teenage girl. It’s kind of crazy, a little bit different. And what about the guy?

Eli and Auden meet one day, of course. They find that they are both insomniacs who suffer from their own various problems. They start hanging out together, and help each other heal and make up for what they lost and missed out on.

It’s a charming and very well written book by Sarah Dessen, who once again successfully made this regular storyline, amazing and intriguing.

-review by Between Printed Pages