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The Road Trip written by Beth O'Leary published by Quercus Books

 




Addie and her sister Debs are about to set off on a road trip to a friend's wedding in the north of Scotland. With Rodney, another wedding guest car sharing, they have everything ready until at a set of traffic lights, another car slams into the back of theirs, and the driver Addie's ex, Dylan, and his mate Marcus, who are also heading to the wedding.

With their car written off,  Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. The car is soon jam-packed full of luggage and secrets, and with three hundred miles ahead of them, Dylan and Addie can't avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship.


This was the third Beth O’Leary book I’ve read and is the first one of hers that hasn’t completely blown me away. There were certain aspects of the book that made me smile…truly funny moments, but there were also points in the story when I thought “yeah right, that would never happen.” I also found the “Then” and “Now” settings a little confusing, as it was “Then and Now” for Addie, or “Then and Now” for Dylan, so you had to remember whose side of the story you were reading and at times I got lost.

 

Rodney was a lovely character, and strangely, I really liked him, but felt that his storyline was just thrown in at the end and his purpose for travelling to the wedding was a bit flimsy.

 

The idea was a great one, ramming five adults into a Mini Cooper (can you really get that many people into such a small car) and driving all the way to Scotland, with a boot full of suitcases and a carload of emotional baggage makes for interesting reading, however it felt like the longest and weirdest car journey of my entire life.

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