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amaliea's review against another edition
4.0
This was fun. I really enjoyed this book. My favorite sections was Bree and Leila.
chandaferguson's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
emilyanne3000's review against another edition
3.0
The Five Stories Within Let's Get Lost:
Just to let you know there are five sections of Let's Get Lost: Hudson, Bree, Elliot, Sonia, and Leila all get to tell their stories! The mini review for each section are below, plus my overall thoughts. Also, to clarify, Leila is in all of the sections, but only the last story is about her specifically. Now, Let's Get Started! Get it? Like the title?
The Stories I Liked:
I LOVED Bree's story. Her's was probably my favorite. She is wild and reckless... which was fun to read about! She and Leila made an awesome pair. Bree is hiding from her family, thinking she is seizing the day and being brave. However, as the story goes on she realizes that to actually be brave, she has to talk to someone who she treated terribly, and mend her family. This section was heartwarming, funny, and I highlighted so many amazing quotes!
I also enjoyed Sonia's story. I loved her boyfriend, they made such a cute couple! This story was quite different from the others. It felt much more adventurous! They are stuck on the wrong side of the border... with the fate of the wedding in their hands!!! This story was just as hilarious and wise as Bree's. Amazing!
Finally, we have Leila's story. There is a pretty cool and unexpected twist! However, I have to say I liked Leila's story less than Bree's and Sonia's. Still she's a pretty cool character and I loved learning more about her after her big roles in the four previous sections!
The Stories I Didn't Like:
Sadly, Hudson's story, aka the first story, was pretty dissapointing. I found Hudson a teensy bit boring, although I liked him better than What's His Name Elliot. Also, this story contained so much insta-love. Kill me now! I did enjoy one fun scene though... I'm not explaining it to you though because spoilers! Also, there is a pretty cool, and important message portrayed in this section. Basically, I didn't hate Hudson's story... but I didn't love it either!
The other story I did not like at all was Elliot's tale. I kind of lost respect for him when a girl clearly told him NO and he kept pursuing her. It's not romantic... it is disrespectful! It wasn't really that bad, plus it was mostly Leila egging him on to "get the girl", but it still grated on my nerves. And the conclusion to the story made me really mad. There were some good aspects though! (Although at this point I really don't remember them.)
Overall Thoughts:
Let's Get Lost is the perfect Summer read. There is a variety of characters, although admittedly I didn't like all of them. Also, Adi Alsaid writes with humor and surprising wisdom. There were so many quotes... funny ones, meaningful ones, odd ones, you name it! Although Let's Get Lost isn't a favorite, I still would recommend it to many readers. Especially lovers of contemporary!
3.5/5 Stars
Just to let you know there are five sections of Let's Get Lost: Hudson, Bree, Elliot, Sonia, and Leila all get to tell their stories! The mini review for each section are below, plus my overall thoughts. Also, to clarify, Leila is in all of the sections, but only the last story is about her specifically. Now, Let's Get Started! Get it? Like the title?
The Stories I Liked:
I LOVED Bree's story. Her's was probably my favorite. She is wild and reckless... which was fun to read about! She and Leila made an awesome pair. Bree is hiding from her family, thinking she is seizing the day and being brave. However, as the story goes on she realizes that to actually be brave, she has to talk to someone who she treated terribly, and mend her family. This section was heartwarming, funny, and I highlighted so many amazing quotes!
I also enjoyed Sonia's story. I loved her boyfriend, they made such a cute couple! This story was quite different from the others. It felt much more adventurous! They are stuck on the wrong side of the border... with the fate of the wedding in their hands!!! This story was just as hilarious and wise as Bree's. Amazing!
Finally, we have Leila's story. There is a pretty cool and unexpected twist! However, I have to say I liked Leila's story less than Bree's and Sonia's. Still she's a pretty cool character and I loved learning more about her after her big roles in the four previous sections!
The Stories I Didn't Like:
Sadly, Hudson's story, aka the first story, was pretty dissapointing. I found Hudson a teensy bit boring, although I liked him better than What's His Name Elliot. Also, this story contained so much insta-love. Kill me now! I did enjoy one fun scene though... I'm not explaining it to you though because spoilers! Also, there is a pretty cool, and important message portrayed in this section. Basically, I didn't hate Hudson's story... but I didn't love it either!
The other story I did not like at all was Elliot's tale. I kind of lost respect for him when a girl clearly told him NO and he kept pursuing her. It's not romantic... it is disrespectful! It wasn't really that bad, plus it was mostly Leila egging him on to "get the girl", but it still grated on my nerves. And the conclusion to the story made me really mad. There were some good aspects though! (Although at this point I really don't remember them.)
Overall Thoughts:
Let's Get Lost is the perfect Summer read. There is a variety of characters, although admittedly I didn't like all of them. Also, Adi Alsaid writes with humor and surprising wisdom. There were so many quotes... funny ones, meaningful ones, odd ones, you name it! Although Let's Get Lost isn't a favorite, I still would recommend it to many readers. Especially lovers of contemporary!
3.5/5 Stars
theloveofinches's review against another edition
4.0
quirky and full of unexpected ridiculousness. I kept waiting to be let down when it came time for each new "message" but I was surprised each time. a bit cheesy, but not in a bad way.
sophie5927's review against another edition
3.0
This one was kind of hard to get into at first for me, but that may have been because I was going through a bit of a reading slump when I started it. It was definitely interesting, I love the concept of a girl walking in and out of people’s lives and making them better, as well as Leila’s road trip to discovery. It was a bit unrealistic and I hated the part with Elliot, but I loved the part with Sonia, Bree and Hudson
dcpip's review against another edition
2.0
I had a lot of problems with this book to begin with, I'm not gonna lie. The whole female protagonist "enigma" character was tiring, and I'd seen it enough already in other books (*cough* John Green).
I found the insta-love tiresome, and I didn't like a few of the characters. Overall I didn't find the story original or enthralling enough. I wanted to like it a lot more!
By the end, I partly changed my mind. The further towards the end I got, the more into the story I was. Sonia was my favourite - it's just a shame her part didn't come sooner.
I'd say give this book a try if you're into John Green (personally I felt a little bit of a Paper Towns vibe from it), but it's slightly less mature (I hope that makes sense). 6/10.
I found the insta-love tiresome, and I didn't like a few of the characters. Overall I didn't find the story original or enthralling enough. I wanted to like it a lot more!
By the end, I partly changed my mind. The further towards the end I got, the more into the story I was. Sonia was my favourite - it's just a shame her part didn't come sooner.
I'd say give this book a try if you're into John Green (personally I felt a little bit of a Paper Towns vibe from it), but it's slightly less mature (I hope that makes sense). 6/10.
emsily's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
ambers0511's review against another edition
4.0
*Novel provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*
Opening Thoughts
I went into this book with very high expectations. It appears to have everything that I could want in a contemporary. It's a road trip book, and who doesn't love road trip books? There appears to be minimal romance, which is refreshing, since I haven't read a contemporary like that in a while, and it's been getting a lot of buzz in the past few months, especially since they were giving out ARC's of this book at BEA, or Book Expo America, for anyone that didn't know. So when I got approved for this book a week or so ago, I was super pumped. This book more like a series of five short stories that are all interconnected.
Characters and Plot
I can't really think of a good way to separate my reviews of the characters and the plot, so I'm just going to change it up a little bit and combine them!
The common denominator in this book, the one that connects these five individual stories together, is Leila. Leila is driving her car from Louisiana, all the way up into Canada, to see the Northern Lights. On her journey there, she encounters four different people, Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, and with each person, they go on sort of adventure together, for lack of a better word. However, Leila reveals very little information about herself to these people that she encounters, perhaps to maintain a mysterious aura, but perhaps for a deeper reason. As this book is told in the third person, you don't know anything about Leila's back story until the very end, when we focus on her. Leila is a great character, I felt, if slightly underdeveloped. She's kind to perfect strangers, and she's always willing to do something adventurous, no matter how weird or stupid it is.
"People hurt each other," Leila said without much inflection in her voice. "It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully, or not. It's part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive."
Hudson is a teenage mechanic, and the first person that Leila encounters on her trip. Leila brings her car into Hudson's dad's shop where Hudson works, and after he works on her car, Hudson offers to show Leila around his small Mississippi town, despite the fact that he has a super important college interview the next morning.
Bree is a teenage runaway, after both her parents died in a car accident, and she's forced to live with her older sister, who Bree feels doesn't care that she lost her parents, and instead, is glad that they died. Leila picks up Bree while she's hitchhiking, and they do a bunch of crazy, illegal things that had the adult in me shaking her head, but the teenager in me cheering them on.
Elliot has just told his best friend that he's in love with her at their senior prom, only for her to turn him down and run away from him. A heart-broken Elliot buys a bottle of bourbon, gets tipsy, and walks out in front of Leila's car. She almost hits him, and in turn for that, she decides to help him get his 80's movie ending.
Sonia lost the love of her life, Sam, almost a year ago, and she's super close with his family. The only problem is, she's fallen in love with another guy (after Sam's death of course), and she feels that feeling anything towards Jeremiah is degrading her relationship with Sam. When Leila has a big fight with Jeremiah the day before his brother is marrying Sam's sister, Sonia meets Leila in a Tim Horton's, and they leave town, going from Canada into Washington, not realizing that the wedding rings are in the pocket of the pocket of Jeremiah's jacket, which Sonia just happens to be wearing. When they realize it, they immediately leave to go back into Canada, only to have the border guards deny them entrance because they think it's suspicious to go back and forth across the border in such a short time span. Leila and Sonia embark on a hilarious journey in attempts to get back into Canada in time for the wedding, definitely the adventure that made me laugh the most, and was probably my favorite.
Overall, Let's Get Lost is the perfect summer read. It's light and funny, with deep and important messages woven in subtly, and beautifully. It's the kind of book that is suitable for adults and teenagers alike. The book read a bit older than a typical young adult book, but that was not at all detrimental to the story. If anything, it was positive. This book is all about how people can come into our lives for a short time and completely change them, which is a universal topic, relatable for anyone, regardless of your age. I'd recommend this to fans of John Green, particularly Paper Towns, though really any of his books.
Opening Thoughts
I went into this book with very high expectations. It appears to have everything that I could want in a contemporary. It's a road trip book, and who doesn't love road trip books? There appears to be minimal romance, which is refreshing, since I haven't read a contemporary like that in a while, and it's been getting a lot of buzz in the past few months, especially since they were giving out ARC's of this book at BEA, or Book Expo America, for anyone that didn't know. So when I got approved for this book a week or so ago, I was super pumped. This book more like a series of five short stories that are all interconnected.
Characters and Plot
I can't really think of a good way to separate my reviews of the characters and the plot, so I'm just going to change it up a little bit and combine them!
The common denominator in this book, the one that connects these five individual stories together, is Leila. Leila is driving her car from Louisiana, all the way up into Canada, to see the Northern Lights. On her journey there, she encounters four different people, Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, and with each person, they go on sort of adventure together, for lack of a better word. However, Leila reveals very little information about herself to these people that she encounters, perhaps to maintain a mysterious aura, but perhaps for a deeper reason. As this book is told in the third person, you don't know anything about Leila's back story until the very end, when we focus on her. Leila is a great character, I felt, if slightly underdeveloped. She's kind to perfect strangers, and she's always willing to do something adventurous, no matter how weird or stupid it is.
"People hurt each other," Leila said without much inflection in her voice. "It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully, or not. It's part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive."
Hudson is a teenage mechanic, and the first person that Leila encounters on her trip. Leila brings her car into Hudson's dad's shop where Hudson works, and after he works on her car, Hudson offers to show Leila around his small Mississippi town, despite the fact that he has a super important college interview the next morning.
Bree is a teenage runaway, after both her parents died in a car accident, and she's forced to live with her older sister, who Bree feels doesn't care that she lost her parents, and instead, is glad that they died. Leila picks up Bree while she's hitchhiking, and they do a bunch of crazy, illegal things that had the adult in me shaking her head, but the teenager in me cheering them on.
Elliot has just told his best friend that he's in love with her at their senior prom, only for her to turn him down and run away from him. A heart-broken Elliot buys a bottle of bourbon, gets tipsy, and walks out in front of Leila's car. She almost hits him, and in turn for that, she decides to help him get his 80's movie ending.
Sonia lost the love of her life, Sam, almost a year ago, and she's super close with his family. The only problem is, she's fallen in love with another guy (after Sam's death of course), and she feels that feeling anything towards Jeremiah is degrading her relationship with Sam. When Leila has a big fight with Jeremiah the day before his brother is marrying Sam's sister, Sonia meets Leila in a Tim Horton's, and they leave town, going from Canada into Washington, not realizing that the wedding rings are in the pocket of the pocket of Jeremiah's jacket, which Sonia just happens to be wearing. When they realize it, they immediately leave to go back into Canada, only to have the border guards deny them entrance because they think it's suspicious to go back and forth across the border in such a short time span. Leila and Sonia embark on a hilarious journey in attempts to get back into Canada in time for the wedding, definitely the adventure that made me laugh the most, and was probably my favorite.
Overall, Let's Get Lost is the perfect summer read. It's light and funny, with deep and important messages woven in subtly, and beautifully. It's the kind of book that is suitable for adults and teenagers alike. The book read a bit older than a typical young adult book, but that was not at all detrimental to the story. If anything, it was positive. This book is all about how people can come into our lives for a short time and completely change them, which is a universal topic, relatable for anyone, regardless of your age. I'd recommend this to fans of John Green, particularly Paper Towns, though really any of his books.
savannahsprice's review against another edition
3.0
I can't decide if this is a 2 or 3 star book. 2.5 for now.
It wasn't that great. I was annoyed with the protagonist- she would burst into everyone's lives thinking she knew what was best for them.
Anyway, the only thing enjoyable about this book was the fact that it was so easy to read, and, at times, relatable.
(update 12/15/16) i honestly think about this book a lot and i didn't hate it as much as i initially said. thinking back i kinda enjoyed it.
It wasn't that great. I was annoyed with the protagonist- she would burst into everyone's lives thinking she knew what was best for them.
Anyway, the only thing enjoyable about this book was the fact that it was so easy to read, and, at times, relatable.
(update 12/15/16) i honestly think about this book a lot and i didn't hate it as much as i initially said. thinking back i kinda enjoyed it.