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The Geography of Lost Things by Jessica Brody


The Quick Cut: A girl goes on a road trip with her ex-boyfriend to sell her recently deceased father's car. Chaos ensues when truths come to light and the road trip ends up in unexpected places.


A Real Review:

Thank you to Simon Pulse for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.


As a chick, it's always fascinating to see how often our relationships with guys are defined by what our relationship was like with our dad. Any psychology 101 class will tell you it can make or break you; these are the pivotal connections that impact us the rest of our lives. In this concept comes the story of Ali and her recently acquired convertible.



Ali's grown up perpetually disappointed by her dad. Having left her and her mom twice growing up (along with a new mountain of debt), she's learned all too hard that life is better without him around. So when news comes that he died of cancer and left his prized car to his daughter, she is all too eager to sell it off for money to keep the family home out of foreclosure. Too bad the car is stick shift and the only person she knows who can drive it is her ex Nico. Insert most awkward drive ever here!



I loved everything about this book and for being almost 500 pages, it's a fast one. Once I started, I had to keep going to see whether they would reach the goal or not here. Plus, the relationship aspect between Ali and her dad plus Ali and Nico was far too intriguing to me not to be interested by. There's a lot of connected subplots between the father, his music connection, and Nico's seeming similarity to him that makes this very well written.


Beyond the well written characters, the style it's written also made me fall in love too. Since it's a road trip book, the chapters are broken up by time stamps, locations, and the current inventory of items they have. It keeps that feeling of adventure and journey going even with the breaks between pages, which added to the sensory journey for me.


If you're a lover of contemporary fiction like me, don't miss this amazing road trip story about a girl and her complicated relationship with dad.


My rating: 5 out of 5


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