Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch

 Girls in Trucks

Author: Katie Crouch
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages: 241
Format: Trade Paperback
Category: Adult Fiction
Rating: Skip it!

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.
When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.
Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent. Synopsis courtesy of Good Reads.

Unfortunately, I was not a fan of this novel. When I picked up Girls in Trucks, I thought to myself, "what a gorgeous cover". I totally did something completely cliche and judged a book by its cover. I know, I know, we're not supposed to do things like that but I'm only human and everyone does it, they just say they don't! haha I'm pretty sad to say that the story just did not cut it for me. I was confused with new characters being introduced, and then never seen again, and the ending was rather unexpected. I didn't really think it was the best way to go. I did, however, think the premise of the novel sounded great and refreshing but I did not feel like Katie did a good job in terms of execution. I think she did well with details and painted really great scenes but the story was a bit slow and boring. Even though I'm not a fan of this book and "rated" it a skip it, I would still recommend buying the book for the cover alone! It looks great on my shelf and it's always the first book that pops into my mind when someone asks what my favourite covers are. So kids, the moral of the story is to stop being superficial and judge a book by its content, even if the cover is terrible. And that note, I would say that Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch has been officially marked!