Release Date: September 15th 2015
Pages: 342
Age Range: Young Adult
Received from publisher for review
Tonight The Streets Are Ours is about seventeen year old Arden, who is a bit too loyal and nice to everyone around her. Her role in life is to support everyone she knows as much as possible. She tries to keep her best friend happy, altough her best friend is anything but loyal to her and even got her in a nasty positition at school. Arden's mother is a person who is also not very worth all of Arden's loyalty. During the first part of the story, Arden's get quite emotianally tired for being loyal to everone, while most people are not loyal to her.
She finds some comfort by reading a blog called Tonight The Streets Are Ours, written by a guy called Peter on which he writes about his life and mostly about the girl he's got a crush on, Bianca. Arden recognizes a lot about herself in Peter's blog and Arden eventually travels to New York City to find Peter, because she truly wants to meet him. But during her stay in New York with a lot of partying with her friend Lindsey, she meets Peter and finds out he is very different then he is on his blog..
At first the story of Tonight The Streets Are Ours starts slow, and it wasn't untill the middle that it picked up more speed. Though it picked up the plot stayed a bit thin and predictable. I wasn't blow away by it. The characters where okay, altough a little odd and onedimensional. Arden is seventeen and it's understandable that you don't make always the wisest choices at that age. But she was acting way too immature for her age and that she was too loyal to everybody was a bit unbelievable. Everyone walks over her everytime and she just let it happen.
Her friends Lindsey and her boyfriend Chris aren't any help at all because they mostly thinks about themselves and the not so wise choices they obviously make in the story. Though I'd been looking forward to the part where she was meeting Peter, that, again, was a bit of a letdown. for Arden but especially for the reader.
I'm just very mixed about this book in general. I like elements of it. I just didn't connect with the whole novel and the characters.
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