A review by frogy927
Abroad: Book Two by Liz Jacobs

4.0

This was somewhere between three and four stars I guess. The parts of this book that were good were SO GOOD. Which just made the parts of it that didn't work all the more frustrating. Nick and Dex finally got good after the world's slowest start. And everything with Nick and his sister and his mom was amazing. But basically Izzy's entire arc/resolution didn't work for me. Alex was such a non-entity for the first book that when he showed up as the romantic resolution for Izzy I wasn't sure why I was supposed to care. And the second she got a romantic resolution, everything about her screenplay and her mother was dropped. The clearly solution for this book being too long was not to make it into two half-books, but to cut a lot of the slow beginning with Nick and Dex and remove all of Izzy's story to give Nick and Dex their own book. You could have made them junior year. Then give Izzy her own book during senior year which seeds Alex as a romantic interest earlier and gives her some sort of homecoming resolution where she lets her mom read her screenplay.