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    This Adventure Ends

    By Emma Mills

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    Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida—especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens.

    Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and the most serious person Sloane's ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines—and ever deeper into the twins' lives.

    Filled with intense and important friendships, a wonderful warts-and-all family, shiveringly good romantic developments, and sharp, witty dialogue, this story is about finding the people you never knew you needed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781627799362
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    Emma Mills

    Emma Mills is the author of several young adult novels, including Foolish Hearts, First & Then, and Something Close to Magic. When she is not writing, Emma can be found editing scientific manuscripts, tending to her large collection of succulents, and deep diving into various fandoms. Emma lives in St. Louis with her dog Teddy, who is best described as a big personality in a tiny package. You can find Emma on X (previously known as Twitter) and Instagram (@Elmify) or at EmmaMillsBooks.com.

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    • 4/5
      I read this in a day..and it was such a compelling read. I really enjoyed Sloane as our main character. I liked how she was just quick witted, and usually honest. I enjoyed her friendships and how her walls were broken down. The overall story of this was a really good one, all the elements came together and the author did a great job with the subtleties and intricacies of the character relationships.Overall, this was a great contemporary read about friendship, family, and letting yourself be cared about
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed Emma Mills' First & Last, so I read this one. Sloane, a high school senior, has recently moved to Florida.There’s a lot of different things going on here: Sloane’s voice lessons and her uncertainties about her future; her father, an author struggling with writer’s block, and the tensions this causes; Sloane’s friendship with twins Vera and Gabe, her mission to track down a painting by their late mother and her lab partner’s reasons for helping with this. And at first, there didn’t seem to be quite enough space to explore everything properly.I didn’t mind, because Sloane is witty and I was entertained. This book made me laugh aloud more than once.But as I read, I realised that all of these are actually about love, in its many forms. Family relationships. Friendships. Romantic relationships that have ended, that are long-standing, that are new. Things people are passionate about.Love is why Vera and Gabe’s mother’s painting is significant, and why Sloane is prepared to go to such lengths to find it. Sloane’s father discovers fandom and fanfiction - stories people write for the love of it, stories people write about love - and shares his discoveries with his daughter because that’s the sort of relationship they have. And Sloane has to decide whether singing is a hobby she loves or a passion she wants to pursue further.I really liked the way everything fitted together. ”It’s not a big deal,” this kid is saying, pitching his voice over the thrum of the room. Clearly it is a big deal, because a ring of onlookers has formed around him. It’s that sort of Shakespearean chorus that pops up at parties like this, to observe and cast judgment and report back to the masses. I’m only three weeks in at Grove County High School, but I recognise the speaker from my AP biology class. His name is Mason, and he sits at the lab bench in front of mine. I also recognise him from the pages of my father’s novels. In a few short years, Mason could be the sheriff’s son who backhands the preacher’s daughter, or the ex-high school quarterback hell-bent on avenging some romantic slight. Guys like him were a dime a dozen in Everett Finch’s world, and they usually died in a fire.
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars - good YA novel about highschool friendships. It wasn't earth shattering for me, but I enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      This was a very engaging contemporary story. Sloane is a new arrival in a small Florida town when her family moves there from New York. Her father is a novelist who is going through an intense period of writer's block. I loved the family dynamics in this one as they all clearly love each other. Sloane is particularly close to her father. Sloane is bright, articulate and prefers to be an observer rather than a participant in events around her but injustice will get her stepping in.Stepping in on a situation is what leads her to meet and become friends with an interesting group of people. She is befriended by Vera who is a social media star and who has a twin named Gabe. Both are dealing, in their different ways, with the death of their artist mother and their father remarrying a 22-year-old. Part of the group are also Aubrey and Remy who used to be an item but have broken up for reasons Remy doesn't understand. Then there is Frank Sanger who is rather indescribable. He is known for hosting parties most often in someone else's home. A Frank Sanger event is THE event of any weekend. When Sloane learns that one of the last paintings that Vera and Gabe's mother painted has been sold despite Gabe wanting to keep it, she decides to go on a quest to get it back for them. Remy is recruited as her partner in the venture and they travel all over to follow the trail of the missing painting. Meanwhile, her father becomes obsessed with a television show called Were School and more importantly the fan fiction which has developed around it. Reading it plotting stories within it break his writer's block but, since his new idea seems too closely based on Sloane and her new friends, she isn't happy with him.The dialog is bright and witty, the characters are fascinating individuals, and watching Sloane as the navigates these new waters of friendship and learn more about herself made a very engaging story.
    • 2/5
      When Sloane moves from New York to Florida, she falls in with an intense, dynamic group of friends. Although I thought the characters themselves were interesting, I was never sure where the plot was going. After a while I grew kinda bored. I do think that the book will hold more interest for teenagers or young adults.
    • 5/5
      I read the 5 chapter excerpt for this book and I knew I needed more Sloane in my life. Just from the excerpt I can tell that Sloane would be a new favorite YA contemporary character.I know it's been said and as become so cliched, but there were some kick-ass characters in this book. Sloane was the best of them all, from the first few pages I knew I was going to love Sloane. I loved her humor and sarcastic nature. It's also so refreshing to have non-bitchy characters and with awesome three dimensional personalities. Loved, loved how sarcastic, and age appropriately mature these characters were. Yes there was romance but it was a slow burn and without too much drama. It became pretty obvious that Sloane's humor and sarcasm was a mechanism to not have to deal with deeper emotions. I liked seeing Sloane grow and start to open herself to more emotional experiences. The diversity and personality range of the characters was another fantastic aspect of the book. My other favorite character was Frank Sanger and oh, Sloane's Dad, loved them. This Adventure Ends was a huge love fest for me. Loved it.