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Book Details Title: The Map from Here to There (Start of Me and You) Author: Emery Lord Number of pages: Publisher: Bloomsbury YA (January 7, 2020) Language: English ISBN: 1681199386 Rating: 3,9     25 reviews

Book Description Review “What a gift Emery Lord has given us with The Map from Here to There. Gut-bustingly funny and exquisitely tender, full of characters to fall in love with and writing that sings out loud, this is a book about figuring out what the rest of your life is going to look like. It’s a book about learning to be a person in the world.” ―Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 DAYS“Lord spends time developing her side characters with depth and maturity, calling out stereotypes and using the characters to explore less common topics in teen literature. An engaging novel.” ―School Library Connection“Engrossing and engaging.” ―Kirkus Reviews“Lord hits the agonizing and comforting beats of the end of high school, capturing the nostalgia of old friendships and hard choices.” ―Booklist“Will inspire readers to persevere.” ―SLJ, starred review, on THE START OF ME AND YOU“A well-crafted love story that will melt your heart a dozen different ways.” ―USA Today on THE START OF ME AND YOU“Lord crafts a poignant look at what it’s like to deal with love, loss, and general teendom, then infuses it with sharp wit and pop culture references.” ―Entertainment Weekly on THE START OF ME AND YOU“A natural successor to Sarah Dessen’s The Truth about Forever. . . . Comfortingly familiar, vibrant, and, at times, wrenching, this belongs on all shelves.” ―Booklist, starred review, on THE NAMES THEY GAVE US“This solid coming-of-age story with family drama and personal growth is a must-have for libraries with Jenny Han and Jennifer Niven fans.” ―SLJ on THE NAMES THEY GAVE US“This is more than a love story. When We Collided carefully yet effortlessly puts mental illness in conversation with the beauty and struggle of adolescence.” ―Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of DUMPLIN’ on WHEN WE COLLIDED“Searingly honest, gut-wrenchingly authentic, and deeply romantic, When We Collided is a gift of a novel.” ―Jasmine Warga, author of MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES on WHEN WE COLLIDED“An absolute tearjerker romance with a powerful message about weightier topics of grief and mental illness.” ―SLJ, starred review, on WHEN WE COLLIDED“A beautifully wrought portrait of bipolar disorder and depression. . . . Full, compassionate and achingly vibrant.” ―USA Today on WHEN WE COLLIDED“A relationship-focused romance with some solid and authentic dynamics. . . . Relatable.” ―BCCB Read more About the Author Emery Lord is the author of Open Road Summer; The Start of Me and You; When We Collided, which was a Schneider Family Book Award Winner, a YALSA-ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, and a YALSA-ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Books; and The Names They Gave Us. She lives in Ohio with her family and several shelves of books that she considers friends.www.emerylord.com@emerylord Read more Customers Review: I admit I was nervous when I learned there was going to be a sequel to The Start of Me and You. I was so happy with how things ended with Paige and Max I was terrified where it would go. But I am also an Emery Lord fangirl so there was no way I wouldn’t read it. That being said it is safe to say that The Map from Here to There demolished my feelings and added a whole new level to Paige and Max’s relationship that just deepened my love for them.The Map from Here to There was a tough read for me. Paige was driving me a crazy for a lot of the book because she refused to talk to people. But the more I read the more I understood where she was coming from and what she was feeling. Being 17/18 is hard. Things are going to change no matter what and you have to come to terms with that. You have to make a decision that could effect the rest of your life and that is no easy task. So as much as she was bugging me, I also related to her. And then there was Max. The poor boy didn’t know which end was up. He was confused by everything going on with him and Paige, about picking a college, of building a relationship he thought he had let go of.Everything about these two was emotional and messy and honestly I think the beauty of Paige and Max was how messy things got and how wonderful they both were. I basically cried the last 25% of the book because of how messy and wonderful Emery Lord made these two characters. What started out as a tough read (admittedly out of my own fear) because this gorgeous story of two young people just trying to find their way under all kinds of pressure from everything around them.If you haven’t picked up an Emery Lord book yet you are missing out on her masterful story telling. Will you need tissues reading this one? Absolutely. Is it worth the ugly crying? 1000% yes. Just do yourself a favor and read The Start of Me and You and The Map from Here to There. You won’t be disappointed. I have waited a very long time to get more of Max and Paige’s story. This book did not disappoint! This is an excellent follow-up to the Start of Me and You! I’m so glad this book is OVER! It’s so long, and it felt like one giant field trip through angstville. I read the first book in the series and thought it was okay, so I gave the second one a shot and really wish I hadn’t wasted my time. All the forward strides Paige makes in book one are backpedaled, and she’s a fairly unlikable person in his book. She says mean things, she does some mean things, and then she’s like, “Hey, anxiety,” like that should forgive all. It took WAAAAAY too long for her to own up to her own mistakes. And once she finally did, the book felt readable. Too bad that was basically the end.It was also pretty irritating that the relationship we all waited for through book one was barely present in book two. It starts out with Paige feeling nonsensically self conscious, and then the author skips over all the cute new-couple moments, and speeds straight into Majorproblemville. It was disappointing, it was exhausting, and it was tedious. I got so tired of being inside Paige’s head. I’ve read books where the main character has anxiety before, and felt like it was handled much better. Kasie West’s By Your Side comes to mind. This just felt like so many things going wrong that could’ve easily been avoided, and again, so much drama. My 15 year old, the target audience for this book I might add, was put off. Her thoughts? “There’s already so much angst and negativity and anxiety in real life. Why would I want to read about more?” Pretty much.I get wanting people to be able to find themselves in a book, finding relatable characters and so forth, but that shouldn’t mean the book itself should be a total downer. ARC from Edelweiss and NetgalleyThe Map From Here to There is the follow up to Emery Lord’s wildly popular The Start of Me and You. Fans were clamoring when they found out they were going to get more of Paige and Max, and with good reason. It was a long road of self discovery and learning to be vulnerable to find their way together. This, in all likelihood, should be a shoo-in of a good read for me. Yeah…not so much. Fair warning – there was little I found to like about this book, so this will be a rant review. There will be people, I’m sure, who will say that I’m not the ‘target’ audience for this book. I would argue that as a huge fan of the first story, I’m an excellent candidate to read this book. Whether I had a positive experience reading it or not.So you know that nice relationship glow that lasts for a little while right after you get together? Yeah. There was none of that here. And quite frankly, this book almost felt insulting. It was like the author was afraid I’d think Paige and Max were going to live happily ever after, so there was a desperate need to show me otherwise. Even if she had to pull Paige and Max out of character to take me there. Not at all reminiscent of the heroine I came to know and love in the first book, Paige just came of as judgey and jealous. All of the growth in first book was killed in this one; I read another review that said all of the progress made in the first book was undone, and I couldn’t agree more.So I’m not going to go over every aspect of this book, but I will touch on the reasons it was such a miss for me. For one, there was the appearance of a character named Hunter that felt like a half-assed attempt at a love triangle, and it felt so contrived. Max spent most of this book confused, and who could blame him? It was so weird and all on Paige, until the end where something had to be pinned on him, so another contrived situation rears its ugly head.Though it covered some serious topics, the first book had a hopefulness and lightness to it that I thoroughly enjoyed, and I expected that here. If you’re also looking for that in this installment, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. It was just misery, not very good angst, and you guessed it – all things contrived. This book basically felt like a young woman who didn’t have enough drama in her life and felt the need to create some. EVERYTHING was blown out of proportion, and while I can give a teenager a break and say that can be indicative of their age or inexperience, it didn’t feel inline with Paige’s character from The Start of Me and You.I will say that at around 75% of this book, things did start happening that felt monumental and authentic, but was so over Paige that I couldn’t even give the plot line the benefit of the doubt.In the end, The Map From Here to There felt disjointed and unplanned, and aside from Max, there was nothing to enjoy. I’m sure you’ll see this book crop up again – in my most disappointing reads of 2020.