Title: The Geography of You and Me
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Published: 2014
Rating: 
Brief Overview: Lucy and Owen meet when they get trapped together in an elevator in their Manhattan apartment building. Soon afterward, Lucy moves to Europe with her family, and Owen and his dad begin a journey west to find a place to live following the death of Owens mom. Lucy and Owen remain in contact through post cards.
Themes: Friendship, Love, Travel
Impressions: This book made me super happy at the beginning. I love New York and I liked the characters. I really liked how they met and the early parts of the book. A quarter of the way through reading it, I was ready to give the book a 5/5 rating. Then, after Lucy moves to Edinburgh, I kind of felt the book fizzle a bit. It was still good (I can't complain too much since I read the whole thing in one sitting) but it just didn't have the same momentum that the beginning had. I also found the ending a little unsatisfying. I was surprised at the (unrealistic?) amount of freedom the characters had since they are only teenagers, but that's typical in YA. I did love the concept of the book and I loved all the traveling. I also liked that while the characters were apart, each of their lives went on. They missed each other but didn't spend all their time pining over each other. By the end of the book I was debating between a 3/5 or 4/5 rating and decided on the latter because it was a cute story, it was imaginative and different and it felt like a nice little adventure to read.
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