I found this book very fun, but meaningful at the same time. However, I had signed out the book unaware that is was about gay relationships, and that was the main premise of the story. Still a great read, though!

A.S. King has this uncanny ability to write characters that are both realistically flawed and believably admirable; and to write about issues that require entire books to capture their complexity while reducing them to simple, insightful common sense wisdom in the process. --- She also has a way of making connections between people both magical and tangible. We can all relate to and understand each other, if only we take the time to really do so. Yet doing so can be so hard that accomplishing it can feel like magic. --- She makes us believe that love can be passed, received, and felt between dreamers on the ground and passengers in the sky. ----- Astrid is struggling with love because everyone insists on giving it careful parameters that narrowly define us against (and generally falling well short of) standards of acceptable, good, and correct. But everyone else's definitions don't work for Astrid, and she refuses to accept their attempts to make her conform to one category or another. She can't. No one gets to define Astrid but Astrid herself. Even if not being defined means no one else in her life will choose to accept her. --- Astrid has so much love to give. If only those in her life would become capable of getting over their predefined standards of perfection enough that they could receive--and return--that love.

I enjoyed reading this book, and found it very touching. I would recommend this book.

"Astrid Jones is stuck - between the narrow-minded, gossipy residents of her small town and her needy, kind of messed-up family, she doesn't know what to do with all of the love she has in her heart. So, Astrid lies on her back on a picnic table, staring up at the sky, and sends her love to the passengers in airplanes flying overhead. She doesn't know whether it has any effect, but she has no idea when she'll figure out how to love just one special someone, either. Fans of philosophical, realistic, emotional reads about rules, labels, and conformity will be entranced by Ask the Passengers." Teen Scene January 2013 Newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=586158