Release Date: January 12th 2016
Pages: 316
Age Range: Young Adult
Seventeen-year old Abby has only one goal for her summer: to make sure she is fluent in French—well, that, and to get as far away from baseball and her Cubs-obsessed family as possible. A summer of culture and language, with no sports in sight.
That turns out to be impossible, though, because her French partner is the exact kind of boy she was hoping to avoid. Eight weeks. 120 hours of class. 80 hours of conversation practice with someone who seems to exclusively wear baseball caps and jerseys. But Zeke in French is a different person than Zeke in English. And Abby can’t help but fall for him, hard. As Abby begins to suspect that Zeke is hiding something, she has to decide if bridging the gap between the distance between who she is and who he is, is worth the risk.
I enjoyed reading The Distance From A to Z. It was just a romantic and light teen romance. It reminded me a little of the books by Stephanie Perkins, as in her books the main character also has a traveling and international interest. The plot was not the most groundbreaking, and I could totally see what was coming next, but it was written in a very good way, so that wasn't really bothering. Very lovely written and told was the development of the relationship between Abby and Zeke. From the beginning I liked their chemistry. What I also liked was because Abby's plan to study in France, the author used a lot of French words and phrases in the book.
It is just a very romantic, nice and well written YA novel that I recommend reading!
