Tonight the Streets Are Ours
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- €4.99
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- €4.99
Publisher Description
From Leila Sales, the author of This Song Will Save Your Life, comes a compelling and relatable story about the hazards of falling for someone you haven't met yet.
Seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley is recklessly loyal. Taking care of her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose: it makes her feel like she matters. But she's tired of being loyal to people who don't appreciate her - including her needy best friend and her absent mum.
Arden stumbles upon a blog called 'Tonight the Streets Are Ours', the musings of a young New York City writer named Peter, and it feels like she's finally found a kindred spirit. When Peter is dumped by the girlfriend he blogs about, Arden decides to take a road trip to see him.
During one crazy night in NYC filled with parties, dancing and music - the type of night when anything can happen, and nearly everything does - Arden discovers that Peter isn't exactly who she thought he was. And maybe she isn't exactly who she thought she was either.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As a child, Arden gave away a Disney World trip to Lindsey, a friend whose family was down on its luck, leading an American Girl esque company to make Arden its Girl of the Year and launch a lookalike doll it described as "recklessly loyal." Now in high school, Arden is getting tired of writing "blank check" of support to loved ones and not getting the same in return. After Arden discovers a blog written by a 17-year-old romantic named Peter, she quickly grows immersed in Peter's world, eventually driving to New York City with Lindsey to find him. Peter's blog entries are intermixed with Arden's story, making it easy to understand why she is drawn to him; from there, Sales (This Song Will Save Your Life) takes her story on surprising turns as Arden learns what it really means to love someone. Not all of the interactions feel realistic (Arden's heart-to-heart with Peter's on-again, off-again love, Bianca, seems unlikely for teens who just met), but it's easy to get caught up in Arden's exhilaration as she starts living life on her own terms. Ages 12 up.
