Allie and Bea

It was a sweet story, and it kept me interested enough to read the it all the way through, but it's just an ok book. Not great, not bad. I found the characters a little hard to relate to, as they made some very bad decisions. The author tried to write it so would you would understand why Allie (a teen runaway) and Bea (an elderly woman) got themselves into these predicaments, but I just couldn't relate. I had trouble feeling much sympathy for Bea after she tries to scam a little girl. It also seemed like the author was trying to make a point at times, and that tends to annoy me. The one thing that Bea couldn't get over was the attachment to the expensive phones that people have today. Yes, as a whole we are too attached to our phones and electronics, but few parents are going to shrug off a child losing 3 or 4 phones a year. Also, if an elderly person comes and asks for help, people are going to let her make a call without a fuss, but they are going to dial for her. Have you seen the majority of octogenarians (I'm assuming) try to work an iphone? No one is just handing it to her. She sounded more like a grumpy old lady ranting on Facebook, than anything else. I see and hear enough of that already. In the end the story was sweet and it was an ok read, but forgettable and not something I would recommend.