3.98 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As someone who loves hiking and escaping life by heading into the outdoors this book caught my attention. Parts of the story were hilarious, sad and hopeful. It was great to watch Helen grow and remove a shell that wasn’t really her true self. I think we bend and reshape ourselves in relationships and loose ourselves. She went the complete opposite direction but didn’t let go of the structure and rules that she was trying to live her life by when she started out on her hike. By the time the hiking adventure was over we see her being okay within herself, that she was good enough and stronger. The banter, snarky comments and hilarious characters made you want to go on this trip with them.
inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hiking and survival, slow burn, unrequited childhood love, and challenging situations both inter and interpersonally (and externally). Not huge into age gaps especially when they are made note of all the time, but this one was okay.

Promptly started the movie after…book is better…as per usual. Haha
hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Predictable and enjoyable.
hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny lighthearted fast-paced

The end of this book felt like going home in July. Don’t really even know how to explain that further. Not at all what I thought it was going to be, but oddly extremely compelling. Maybe I will go hike for 3 weeks with a bunch of strangers.

Absolutely obsessed with this book, I practically read it in one sitting. Helen and Jake are so freaking cute but oh my god poor pickles
adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes