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Wanderlove - Kirsten Hubbard
Jul. 10th, 2018 19:46
Title: WanderloveAuthor: Kirsten Hubbard
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 354
Date read: July, 2018
It all begins with a stupid question:
Are you a Global Vagabond?
No, but 18-year-old Bria Sandoval wants to be. 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. Middle-aged tourists with fanny packs are hardly the key to self-rediscovery. 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.
Bria's a good girl trying to go bad. Rowan's a bad boy trying to stay good. 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. And the secret to escaping the past, Rowan's found, is to keep moving forward.
But Bria comes to realize she can't run forever, no matter what Rowan says. If she ever wants the courage to fall for someone worthwhile, she has to start looking back.
This is very much a "what you see is what you get" book - the blurb pretty much tells you what's going on. And you know what? That's fine. Sometimes it's nice to know what you're in for when starting a new book, and this turned out to be a very charming YA. It's a great mix of traveling around Central America and (fairly standard) YA, and I ended up really enjoying it. The characters are believable and as I grew to care for Starling, Rowan and especially Bria, their inward journey turned out to be just as interesting as their outward one.
