(Can you tell I’m putting off writing this?) I have been wanting to reread this book for at least 7 months, but I keep putting it off because I seem to be cursed to hate everything I want to love. Isn’t that bananas?! I can hardly believe it!Īnyway. In anticipation of the fact that I’m leaving for Vietnam tomorrow. I knew I was going to like this book - that’s why I reread it. And it’s YA contemporary, and I’ve absolutely given up on that genre for the moment because I can’t deal with the constant disappointment.Īnd yet here we are. It should be undeniably dumb, right? Look at the COVER. I don’t even know if I can rate it!įirst, I want to say it’s unfair how much I love this book. Instant regret on saying I’ll write a full review of this book.

If there's a better mid-pandemic comfort reread than this, a romance that takes place while the protagonist backpacks through Central America, idk what it is It is with a heavy heart that i must say.i'm dropping this rating to a 4 upon reread

Her career as a travel writer and her experiences as a real-life vagabond backpacking Central America are deeply seeded in this inspiring story. Kirsten Hubbard lends her artistry to this ultimate backpacker novel, weaving her drawings into the text. If she ever wants the courage to fall for someone worthwhile, she has to start looking back.

And the secret to escaping the past, Rowan’s found, is to keep moving forward.īut Bria comes to realize she can't run forever, no matter what Rowan says. As they travel across a panorama of Mayan villages, remote Belizean islands, and hostels plagued with jungle beasties, they discover what they've got in common: both seek to leave behind the old versions of themselves. When Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpacker and dive instructor, and his outspokenly humanitarian sister Starling, she seizes the chance to ditch her group and join them off the beaten path.īria's a good girl trying to go bad. Middle-aged tourists with fanny packs are hardly the key to self-rediscovery. In a quest for independence, her neglected art, and no-strings-attached hookups, she signs up for a guided tour of Central America-the wrong one. No, but 18-year-old Bria Sandoval wants to be.

Wanderlove by kirsten hubbard