Book Tour & Giveaway: Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul
Title: Where the Road Leads Us Author: Robin Reul
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
Genres: YA Contemporary
"A beautiful, tender and thoughtful meditation on finding your way."—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star
Sometimes the best path is the unexpected one.
Jack is on the verge for leaving for college, but before he does, he wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it's too late.
Jack and Hallie are practically strangers. They shared a class together years ago and haven't seen each other since, though they have more in common than they'd ever imagine. And when fate puts them into the same rideshare to the bus terminal, it kicks off an unconventional and hilarious adventure that may lead them to their own true selves…and maybe to each other.
The author of MY KIND OF CRAZY and the
forthcoming WHERE THE ROAD LEADS US, Robin Reul has been writing since she was
in early elementary school, when she used to make her own book club flyers for
her classmates and then pen them original stories. Though she grew up on movie
sets and worked for many years in the film and television industry both as an
actress and in motion picture development, she ultimately decided to focus her
attention on writing young adult novels. Inspired by novelists like John Green and
Sarah Dessen and screenwriters like John Hughes and Richard Linklater, she
loves to write stories that straddle the line between humor and heartbreak,
filled with quirky, memorable characters who stay with the reader long after
the story ends. When she's not writing, Robin can be found drinking copious
amounts of iced coffee and listening to way too much 80's music. She lives in
Los Angeles suburbia.
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Hallie is a cancer survivor who wants to leave Los Angeles to visit a friend she met online who is ending his own life via assisted suicide since he is in a lot of pain and his cancer is incurable. She buys the bus tickets with money she steals from her parents since she thinks they would not approve of her leaving on her own to meet a boy she met online for such a tragic meeting, but the wildfires are making all the buses late and she is stuck.
Jack was just dumped by his girlfriend on graduation day which is also his birthday so he is naturally very upset and leaves a party with a car-sharing service to hang out at a nearby bus station to lose some time because his car is stuck by other party attendants. In the car, he meets Hallie who is going in the same direction, and their car driver Oscar, who also wants to leave LA to stop his ex-girlfriend's wedding and maybe switch places with the groom if all goes according to his plan. Earlier in the day, Jack discovers a letter from his departed father to his estranged brother that he never managed to send before he died. So when the buses don't arrive for Hallie, he makes up his mind for the three of them to use Oscar's car and go together since they have the same destination or general direction anyway.
Now of course there are lots of misfortunes and adventures on the way, but the story didn't feel cliche at all and despite the serious topics it delves into like cancer, death of a family member, overdose, assisted suicide, it manages to somehow be a fun read at the same time as being profound and meaningful.
I'd always wondered what happened to her in the same way you wonder about a canceled TV series that abruptly ends without resolution. Eventually you make peace with the fact that just because you want answers it doesn't mean you're gonna get them, and after a while you forget about it and move on.
It's a very good coming-of-age story, and probably one of the best I read so far in 2021.
Tour Schedule:
April 5 - Paper Fury
April 6 - Betwixt the Sheets
April 7 - DJ Reads Books
April 8 - What a Nerd Girl Says
April 9 - Shelf Love
April 10 - Vanilla
Moon Books
April 11 - Yours
A-fiction-ately
April 12 - Lara Jane Reviews
April 13 - Jupiter's
Solo Bibliophile
April 14 - Books,
Tea, Healthy Me
April 14 - Shelves
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