Colby has it all figured out, has had the same plan for
years: tour with his best friend Bev’s terrible awesome band for their senior
summer and then backpack through Europe together. Bev changes everything when
she announces that instead she is going to start college in the fall and all
his dreams are shattered and get used to it.
Now Colby begins the last summer of freedom on a heartbreaking, life changing
road trip.
Like Everything You need to Survive the Apocalypse, (which I just
reviewed) this is a definite ‘have a hanky handy’ read. The cover tricks you with
light-happy-summertime image that makes you think this will be a fun summer
romp. No. Suuuuure, there’s loads of fun
in this book, but it’s also a very genuine and real look at first love and
first heartbreak and why you will almost always have to abandon certain dreams
to grow up. The characters feel like real
people and have their own drives and backgrounds beyond what they mean to
Colby. This makes the book come alive
and lets different readers take different things form the book, because different
readers will likely identify with different characters. Heck, I identified with different characters
at the end of the book than for the middle or the beginning. This is one of these great coming-of-age,
love-and-loss books like The Big Crunch (YP
FIC HAUTMAN) or How to Say Goodbye in Robot (YP FIC STANDIFOR)that I’ve reviewed
previously. It didn’t move me or grab me
quite as much as LaCour’s first novel Hold Still. This one is certainly just as good, so some readers will probably
even like it better. DEFINITELY read
both. LaCour is definitely shaping up to
be one of the best new voices in realistic fiction for young adults.
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