âA complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page.â âAdalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna
âUtterly compelling and impossible to put down.â âRachel Griffin, New York Times bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight
âIâve never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heartâpowerful, poignant, and true.â âAxie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and XOXO
Atlas has lost her way.
In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, sheâs working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dadâs favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her teamâBooks, Sugar, Junior, and Kingâshe heads into the wilderness. As she sheds the lies sheâs built up as walls to protect herself, she realizes that four strangers might know her better than anyone has before. And with the end of the trail racing to meet them, Maps is left counting down the days until she returns to her old lifeâwithout her new family, and without King, whoâs become more than just a friend.
Li
1-6-2024
The writing is good but good lord is Atlas the worst person ever to be in the headspace of. This book isn't really about processing grief so much as it is about the delusion that if you act like a bitch to everyone you'll still get the dream boyfriend and friend group in the end because you've had it rough. Yuck.