Book Review First Love by James Patterson and Emily Raymond

If you liked Hazel and Augustus in The Fault in Our Stars, you will love Axi and Robinson in First Love.

The story starts with Axi telling her best friend Robinson that she is running away from home and has planned a cross-country bus trip, and that she wants him to go with her. Axi's little sister died "before she could tie her shoes," her mother left and all Axi knows is that she went "East," and her father drowns his sorrows at the Reel M Inn Tavern. Why shouldn't she leaver Klamath, Falls, Oregon? Axi thinks. Robinson doesn't hesitate before agreeing to go with her, but thinks Greyhound isn't the way to go. So, their journey starts on a stolen Harley.

They visit, among other places, Torrance, California, where they do some NASCAR driving; Hollywood, where they swim in the pool of an empty for-sale mansion, and crash a star-studded benefit for a children's hospital; Las Vegas, where they are befriended by stripper, and go totally overboard when escaping from a police officer who pulled them over for speeding in a stolen Porsche; and Detroit, where we start learning a little about Robinson's past.

Along the way Axi and Robinson grown closer, and we learn how they met, why they knew they'd be best friends forever and that Axi wasn't the only one who was in love at first sight.

The teens end up in Asheville, North Carolina, where we learn the rest of Robinson's story.

Any more would be a spoiler, and I don't like doing that. I will say I cried, though.

5 of 5

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