The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E Smith

The Geography of You and Me

by Jennifer E Smith

For fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Ockler, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is a story for anyone who's ever longed to meet someone special, for anyone who's searched for home and found it where they least expected it.

Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when the power goes out in the midst of a New York heatwave, they find themselves together for the first time: stuck in a lift between the 10th and 11th floors. As they await help, they start talking...

The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland they can't shake the memory of the time they shared. Postcards cross the globe when they themselves can't, as Owen and Lucy experience the joy - and pain - of first love.

And as they make their separate journeys in search of home, they discover that sometimes it is a person rather than a place that anchors you most in the world.

Reviewed by Ashley on

2 of 5 stars

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This book was sooo not what I thought it was. It felt too much like "Just One Day", where a couple meets ONCE, then can't stop thinking about each other for a freaking year. They weren't actually dating or anything; they just randomly thought about each other for a whole year and only saw each other like once.

Most of the book was just about their day-to-day activities and family dynamics, and that kind of bored me. I just wasn't interested in that aspect of the story.

Disappointed. :(

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