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Let's Get Lost is about a teenage girl named Isabel who is dealing with her mother's death in her own way. She shut herself off, keeping a straight face in front of her group of friends, interacting barely with her little brother, fighting almost every day with her father and lying too much to her new friends. She felt truly responsible for her mother's death and that's why she built a carapace around her heart. It's only when she met a new boy that's she started opening herself slowly.
I remember buying this book back when I was in high school just because I found the front cover beautiful. Never did I think I was holding my favorite book ever. This books made me smile, cry, laugh and angry at the same time. It was honestly the first time that I felt so much for the main character, that I recognize myself completely in her. I thankfully didn’t go through the same things as her but I knew this would have been how I would have reacted. It seems difficult at first to like Isabel; she’s rude, mean and annoying. The typical teenager girl going through puberty but the author thanks to flashback and some insight of Isabel’s thoughts helps us, readers, understand who really Isabel is. There is more to the rebel teenager who just lost her mother, Sarra Manning wrote Isabel in such a realistic way that we can only admire Isabel and felt for her even more. We discover a 16 years old girl who is terribly afraid of being alone, who isn’t sure of what she’s doing and clearly isn’t as strong as she would like to appear. I think that’s why I love this book so much, despite her loss she kept going forward, making mistakes but learning from them. It’s a book about a girl who is just living her life.
My favorite passage was when Isabel and her father finally talked about her mother's death, which was so emotional that I remember I needed a break before reading it completely. Sarra Manning definitely knows how to make someone have this famous knot in the stomach. Even while reading the book for the second time I kept having tears in my eyes.
Otherwise, the one thing I like the less was the epilogue. Indeed it wasn’t the happily ever after type of ending. It was realistic once again, after all her lies she couldn’t just get away with everything but I hoped that she could reunited with her lover.
