Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Road Trip, Realistic Fiction, Music, Romance
Published: June 12, 2012
Pages: 336
Dates Read: January 10 to 15, 2013
1 Concert
2000 Miles
3 Ex-Best Friends
Alice, Summer, and Tiernan are ex-best friends.
Back in middle school, the three girls were inseparable. They were also the number one fans of the rock band Level3.
But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Summer ran with the popular crowd, Tiernan was a rebellious wild-child, and Alice spent high school with her nose buried in books.
Now, just as the girls are about to graduate, Level3 announces a one-time-only reunion show.
Even though the concert’s 2000 miles away, Alice buys three tickets on impulse. And as it turns out, Summer and Tiernan have their own reasons for wanting to get out of town. Good thing Alice’s graduation gift (a pea-green 1976 VW camper van known as the Pea Pod) is just the vehicle to get them there.
But on the long drive cross-country, the girls hit more than a few bumps in the road. Will their friendship get an encore or is the show really over?
When something was beshert - a coincidence between Level3 and these three ex-best friends – you went with it all the way. And when an interview on TV revealed a one-night-only reunion of the broken up band, Alice decided that this was definitely beshert and she was going with it all the way, even if it meant talking to her estranged best friends.
With concert tickets on hold and a newly renovated Pea Pod, Alice is ready to take this 2000 mile journey, that is if her once-friends even agree. Because a few years ago, a split moment impulse ended their friendship on a bitter note. And with a control freak, a popular girl, and a rebel, it’s not easy to see eye-to-eye anymore. But it seems like they all have something to get away from, even if it means to ride cross-country with enemies.
By the end they realize maybe Level3 wasn’t the main point of this road trip, but mending broken ties. Alice, Tiernan, and Summer are in for a ride.
This book was fun! Who doesn’t like a good road trip? I love how you have these three girls who are just so different but they somehow were friends. And I believe that the whole “middle school obsession with a (boy) band” is totally relate-able for a lot girls! I know, personally, that I used to bond with random girls just because I had an artist on my folder or I talked about this group. That added a sense of realism to me. The thing that didn’t sit well me the worst, though, was the underage binge drinking and the whole irresponsibility of it all. I mean, Summer was walking around an unknown city drunk! The fact that they weren’t carded is unbelievable, too. I was battling between 3 stars and 4 for this reason, but I rationed that the rest of the story was too good for me to give one less star! It was a very light read despite and it was very well-done the development of Alice, Tiernan, and Summer throughout the novel.