Welcome to my new Behind The Pages post! You can find last month's post of this feature, with Katie McGarry and Crash Into You, here. Today I'm sharing two annotated pages from Adi Alsaid's debut novel LET'S GET LOST.
What is Behind The Pages all about? I asked some of my favourite authors and a bunch of promising 2014 debut authors to annotate a scene, page or more of one of their books. I see the feature as a chance to show readers what's behind a page. Authors can share their favourite writing memories, the music that influenced a certain scene or anything else that comes to their mind. We might get hints to what the characters were thinking and feeling that exact moment or other fun details about their story. Hope you enjoy Behind The Pages as much as I do. I'm intending this feature to be a monthly post here on the blog.
Thanks to all the incredible authors who took the time to
annotate a page or scene for us, your comments are always so insightful
and fun to read. When readers can't get enough of a book and its
characters it only shows how much the author's work means to them, to
us. Thank you!
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Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.
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Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
Adi: "Let's Get Lost is told through five different perspectives, four
strangers tied together by a mysterious girl named Leila. From section
to section, before each character meets the enigmatic road tripper, I'm
introducing readers to a whole new character, in a completely different
situation as the section before. Below, I've pointed out some of the
changes that happened along the drafts. I've also included a few
background notes and the reasons certain bits were cut."
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Soundtrack
You should really listen to this song when you read Bree's scene. Awesome pick, Adi!!