Ask the Passengers by A.S. KingGenres: Young Adult Fiction, Contemporary
Publication date: Oct 23, 2012
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook, 8 hours, 4 minutes
How I got it: My local library
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My rating: 3/5
Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions--like what it means that she's falling in love with a girl.
As her secret relationship becomes more intense and her friends demand answers, Astrid has nowhere left to turn. She can't share the truth with anyone except the people at thirty thousand feet, and they don't even know she's there. But little does Astrid know just how much even the tiniest connection will affect these strangers' lives--and her own--for the better.
In this truly original portrayal of a girl struggling to break free of society's definitions, Printz Honor author A.S. King asks readers to question everything--and offers hope to those who will never stop seeking real love.
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My thoughts:
This book follows Astrid as she is trying to figure out her
life. I listened to this book and had a
hard time wanting to keep listening to the audio for some reason.
Astrid was a complicated character for me to like. I understand that she was going through a
difficult time in her life and was having trouble making decisions, but I felt
like she was bottling up way too much. I feel like she was almost a lone solider on
the battlefield. She had a decent size
support system, but just wanted nothing to do with them, which made it hard for
me to like her. I do get that she and
her mother don’t have the best relationship, but her dad really seemed to try
and be part of her life. Also, she had a
group of friends that after listening to the whole book I am not sure how close
she was even with them.
I did really enjoy listening to the story as a whole. The author did a great job with a complicated
issue of sexual orientation and not always knowing exactly what you are because
this does actually happen. I also
really liked how the author brought in a lot about the philosopher Sophocles
because I feel like something philosophers are forgotten. The story flowed very nicely and it was easy
to follow along with what was going on.
The plane portion of the book was very interesting to
me. I liked that we got sort of short stories
about the passengers lives on the planes that Astrid was sending her love
too. I felt like these side stories
broke up the book a bit. My one issue
with these are I wanted to get more conclusions on some of the stories I felt
like I wanted answers from the passengers once they made their life decisions.
I also enjoyed the ending of the book. The author did a great job sort of summing up
where we left off in the book. I do feel
like I have a few questions on where the relationships between the characters
are going to go, but I felt very content when the book ended.
I would suggest this as a nighttime read or listen to. The book gave me a lot to think about and I feel
like there were many natural stopping points that allowed me to take a break
and consider what I listened too.
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