Description
"With taut, realistic dialogue, [Mills] expertly crafts blossoming friendships and nascent romances." ―Publishers Weekly "Immensely enjoyable." ― Booklist “Fans of romances, friend-ensemble novels, and literary fiction can thus all find their own level of enjoyment here.” ― The Bulletin First & Then :"With sporadic references to Jane Austen's famous characters and wickedly inventive language, Mills closely observes the social milieu of an American high school.... A fresh, smart, inventive, and altogether impressive debut.” ― Kirkus Reviews , starred review Emma Mills is the author of First & Then , This Adventure Ends , Foolish Hearts , Famous in a Small Town , and Lucky Caller . She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and has recently completed a PhD in cell biology.
Features & Highlights
- Filled with intense and important friendships, a wonderful warts-and-all family, shiveringly good romance, and sharp, witty dialogue, this story from Emma Mills (
- First & Then
- ) is about finding the people you never knew you needed.
- Sloane isn’t expecting to fall in love with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida―especially not a group of friends so intense, so layered with private tragedies and secret codes, so all-consuming. Yet that’s exactly what happens. And it will lead her (and, um, her dad) on a life-changing adventure. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and the most serious person Sloane's ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines―and ever deeper into the twins' lives.
- Praise for
- This Adventure Ends
- :"With taut, realistic dialogue, [Mills] expertly crafts blossoming friendships and nascent romances." ―
- Publishers Weekly
- "Immensely enjoyable." ―
- Booklist
