I've been so busy lately, so sorry I haven't posted in a while. But today, I bring you a review for a lovely book I just finished. It was quite predictable and probably cliche, but I really enjoyed it. Definitely produced some smiles.
Stats:
Genre: Contemporary. Road Trip book!
Feelings: Some happy flaily feels
Happiness: See above. I definitely grinned reading this.
Cuteness: The bits with Hudson were very insta-love, but honestly kinda adorable. But there was a lot of friend-cute.
Fast
pacing: No, but this book is split up into five different "parts" so it was a very quick read.
Series: Nope.
Read if
you like: Road trips, fluff, friendship stories, self-discovery sentimental reads. Also I think fans of Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone would like this. It has a similar DO ALL THE THINGS vibe.
Content: Light kissing, few cases of swearing, drinking. Some "rebellious" behavior, I guess.
In one
sentence... Four different people meet one girl on her journey to see the northern lights, and the changes she makes in their life are nothing they would expect.
Thoughts: People coming and going. The sound of an engine running, loudly played music, running in the woods, swimming in a river, and the color red.
Overall:
Rating: 4.5/5 This is a tentative rating. I loved it and I consider it to be amazing, but that is more of a personal meaning to me. I am rating this not completely for quality but because I personally loved it. If I was going to be picky the rating might be smaller.
This review has LIGHT SPOILERS
The Lovely Bits:
Okay I am just going to go out and admit it, I pretty much got this book from the cover. I've had friends give me lectures on that but I have no shame. Seriously who hasn't done that? And normally I like fantasy and adventures, with detectives or ghosts or misunderstood evil people doing bad things and...you know, being misunderstood. I do have contemporary books I love, but not as much. But this one? I couldn't help it. It was so cute. And that's what the whole book is. It's cute. Literary? No. Award winning? No. Influential? Not really. But it was cute and I liked it.
This book. I flew through the whole thing, becoming easily caught up in the story and the different characters. Everyone was damaged and interesting, even with their annoying moments. It was light, cute, but meaningful.
There was a lot of development, and I'm a sucker for character development. I also love stories about a bunch of random people being connected somehow. I also love road trips, and self-discovery books. So basically this was everything I could want.
Bree, I think was my favorite of them all, because her story was the most intense and serious. The writing was very simplistic while still being pretty. I don't think it was too obvious how hard he was trying to make it pretty.
It's hard to write my feelings about it? I read it at kind of the right time for me. Looking at it now, it's harder to figure out what it is I like. I think it's simply a case of a book having all the right components for me.
The Less Lovely Bits:
Leila was a little too perfect. Yes, she did had flaws. But it seemed like Adi Alsaid made this perfect girl, and then remembered he was supposed to add some flaws and sprinkled in some random things like a tragic back story and amnesia. She was likable and hate-able all at the same time.
(okay spoilers from here on out. Skip all the bold if you don't want spoilers)
Hudson. Okay he was sweet, and the insta-love wasn't too ridiculous. It wasn't the type where they know each other for a day and are planning to get married. It was more of a case where they knew each other for a day, they are attracted to each other, and they kiss, might have a future and stuff like that. But I didn't like how he came back in the end. I would have preferred if they both went their own ways and dealt with it. It seemed a little too pulled together and happy for me. Yes, this is a fluffy romance, but I still wanted Hudson and her didn't have a happy ending.
Also the random little girl whose name I don't remember at the end bugged me. She was annoying. When she got "lost" in the pathetic attempt for an intense climax I kind of wished she'd got eaten by a bear. Don't hate me.
Overall, I did enjoy it. A lot. I would recommend it to those who don't mind a fluffy, kind of cliche read.
Also I really want to go on a road trip.
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