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Girls In Trucks

Katie Crouch
Little, Brown and Company (2008)
ISBN 9780316002110
Reviewed by Gina Holland for RebeccasReads (7/08)

“Girls In Trucks” is about Sarah Walters, a girl growing up in a family of Camellia Society Debutants. As a member, she is expected to be prim and proper: a young lady. She tries very hard. She makes a few friends, and they are expected to stay friends for life. So be it. Sarah grows up about as normal as other girls her age, whatever normal is. She takes us step by step inside her life of pain, love, tragedy, and etcetera.

Sarah loves her mom and dad dearly. She adores her sister even though her sister is always bossing her around. Sarah grows up a lot different then her sister, even though they come from the same household. She gets into things that are really not good for her, including men. She has many different relationships. In one of her relationships with a man named Max, she is very happy, and loves him very much. Until the day he decides to bring another woman home in their bed. Sarah walks out, because she’s had enough, but does she return? Or does she move on to other things, other men, other hurtful situations? By the time Sarah is thirty, she’s still not married. When is she going to find the right man? She has one unexpected thing in her life that she loves dearly.

This novel brought me back through the memories of my childhood. It reminded me of the things that I went through growing up. When an author writes a book like this one, I believe that they have some of their own childhood memories mixed in, too! That is a good thing. I love the fact that when I read something, I can relate to a lot of the things that the other person is going through. Sarah Walters is a wonderful character. I really enjoyed her. Another good character was her sister. I have known a lot of sister’s like Sarah’s. Always teasing their younger sister, making the little sister does things for her. It’s all a part of growing up and the love of sisters. I loved this book because it did take me back to my younger days. Something I very seldom think about now.

Katie Crouch did a wonderful job in capturing Sarah’s childhood. The ending is good, however, it is my opinion that the ending should have been very different. I was really not expecting it to end the way it did.

  

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