Much to Zorie's chagrin, her former best friend Lennon, a goth boy with a knack for drawing maps, is also joining the trip. Then her mother persuades her to join a camping trip in Northern California with some of the most popular kids in her school. Seventeen-year-old Zorie Everhart is an aspiring astronomer who intends to spend her last few weeks of summer working at her parents' wellness clinic and participating in astronomy club. But can Zorie and Lennon’s rekindled connection survive out in the real world? Or was it just a result of the fresh forest air and the magic of the twinkling stars?īennett (Alex, Approximately) combines a romance with a survival story in a slow-paced novel featuring multilayered characters but grating subplots. But fighting each other while also fighting off the forces of nature makes getting out of the woods in one piece less and less likely.Īnd as the two travel deeper into Northern California’s rugged backcountry, secrets and hidden feelings surface. With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice but to hash out their issues via witty jabs and insults as they try to make their way to safety.
It doesn’t hurt that their families are the modern day, Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets.īut when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. In this romantic dramedy from the author of Alex, Approximately, a teen girl’s way-too-ordinary life is driven off the beaten path when she’s abandoned in the wilderness with her worst adversary-the boy who broke her heart.Įver since last year’s homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other.
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