Ready or Not

All-American Girl #2

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

ALL-AMERICAN GIRL 2: READY OR NOT finds Samantha Madison, everyone's favorite national heroine, dealing with life as the girlfriend of the first son, but also her cheerleader sister's romantic problems as well.


"A compelling story with a strong plot line, a little teen angst, a little romance, and great dialogue - and narrator Ariadne Meyers makes it even better. Listeners will be left hoping to hear more from both Samantha and Ariadne Meyers." -- AudioFile magazine on All-American Girl.©2005 Meg Cabot; © and (P)2005 Listening Library, a division of Random House, Inc.

Solid 2nd book

Often, a second book doesn’t measure up to the high standards of the first book but that’s not the case with this one. Great follow up to the original story in an excellent writing job by the author, as usual.

Very high-quality

I love Meg cabbot’s book series. Both novels have really touched me. I love listening to the sound of Ariadne Meyers as she narrates the story. She even sounds different when playing the parts on each character. Thank you audible, I believe I have found another great listen. Hopefully Meg Cabot will come out with more books in the series. I love it.

NOt Ready for this Book

Do NOT let your kids listen to this book unless you condone teens having sex. I was hoping to keep my preteen girls as interested in this sequel as they were in All American Girl on our last car trip. Imagine my surprise to find out that this sequel was all about whether our hero Samantha, age 16, would have sex with her boyfriend, David, the President's son. The book started out innocently enough, but quickly became all about Samantha agonizing about whether to have sex with David after he invites her to go on Thanksgiving vacation with his family. Her sister even buys her condoms and foam. I kept hoping that the story would allow Samantha to decide that she was too young for sex and if she said "no", David would still want to continue their relationship. This would be a great springboard for discussing the issue with my daughters. I was shocked to find out that even though David denied having invited her on vacation to have sex, Samantha jumped into bed with him and got down to business. The story even detailed her telling her girlfriends about how good sexual intercourse was with her boyfriend. I'm sorely disappointed that the author had to stoop to this. Of course, there was no mention of sexually transmitted diseases while all of this musing about sex was going on. I'm not conservative or prudish, but I'd rather my girls wait until they are adult enough to handle the responsibilities of possible pregnancy or STD's before they dive into sex. Avoid this book, unless you want your teens to be enouraged to have sexual intercourse before they are ready.

An Unfortunate Sequel

The storyline was very disappointing, I ended up skipping parts of it just so I could get it over with. it was nothing like the first book, by just changing names the story could have been part of a completely different series. If you liked the first book, just stop there.