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Really good book. Took awhile for me to get into it with it being British kinda themed but it was still a great book. Never knew what to expect next. Really emotional and relatable for a high school student. Isabel hid her shame and emotions behind her bad attitude but Smith brought the best out of her!


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Let Get Lost Sarra Manning 9780340877012 Books Reviews

Isabella is a tough girl who just doesn't give a damn about anything, since the death of her mother, she has developed this tough exterior about life and everyonei n her life. She is a bully. And she wants no one to see her hurt and feelings only her tough exterior and layers. I was instantly hooked with this book. I cried for Isabella. I was even more hooked when Smith came into the picture. There relationship is alot easier to understand than the one between Dean and Molly in Guitar Girl. Smith is the only one that can see Isabella's need for love and how hurt she is in the inside. I really liked this book. The ending was great.
16 year old Isabel is the most feared girl at her school, she's mean and others know that it's better to stay out of her way. She learned the hard way that being weak is punished at school, so she decided that being a bully is safer. Even her mother's recent death doesn't seem to touch her, at least not on the surface. But inside Isabel is broken since the day her mother died and she doesn't know how to go on with living. At home her father and she fight daily, they just can't deal with what happened.
When she meets Smith, she tries to use him to forget her pain. But Smith is not like the other guys she knows, he can see through her defence mechanism and soon she realizes that with him she can be herself again.
But their relationship is based on lies and when they are exposed, Isabel is even more broken than before. Will she be able to find a way to deal with her new life and will she be able to be happy again?

And yet another review for a book written by Sarra Manning. I just love the way she writes and creates her characters. She makes them full of flaws and still so likable. If you are looking for perfect characters who never do stupid things, then this book is not for you. But if you are looking for real and raw characters, then you might love this book just as much as I did.

I never thought that I would come to like a heroine who's a bully so much, but I was fascinated (in a positive way) with Isabel right from the start on. I felt with her and her pain was so palpable that at times I hurt when she hurt. I could even understand why she acted in such a mean way even though I couldn't approve of it. I liked that Isabel was sarcastic, snarky and acted as a bully even before she lost her mom. I don't thinks it's realistic when one event changes a person completly. More often than not a tragic event will only change parts of your personality and that's exactly what happened in "Let's get lost".
It was mesmerizing to see how she tried to go on with her life without feeling a sense in it. Her mothers death and what lead to it broke something in her and Isabel had a hard time to put together the broken pieces of her heart.

Isabel's father was also not perfect, his actions were in my opinion worse because as the adult he should have been there for his children and not drown his problems in alcohol. It took him a long time to deal with his grief and to really see Isabel again. At times I was very angry with him however in the end I was happy with the way Isabel and he found a way back to being a family. Both had to accept that some events just happen and that nobody is to blame for it.

The relationship between Isabel and Smith was sweet, messed up, edgy and so good. Sarra Manning doesn't shy away from creating characters that mess up and that you want to shake from time to time. Both Isabel and Smith did stupid things, even though Isabel's lies created the main issues between them. I especially loved the tender momets between them because in those you could see Isabel without her facade.

The epilogue was beautiful and fit perfectly to the book. It's exactly what Isabel needed to go on with her life and to be happy again.

cover
I think the colours on the cover are beautiful and the girl really looks like she tries to forget some painful memories.

final appraisal
"Let's get lost" is a powerful story about going on with life after a tragedy happened. Isabel is an unusual heroine and the story is wonderfully messed up. I would recommend this book to all readers who enjoy raw and edgy young adult stories.
This book was a great read! I enjoyed it and I was pleased with the ending. I hated the way Bella's friends started treating her. The ending was perfect.
I rounded up to 3 stars because the author is an excellent writer. Her character creation and methods of story telling are good. No contrivances to move the plot. It's thought provoking. It's about two things bullying and the death of one's mother causing grief and guilt.

BULLYING
Sweet smart girl suffered from bullies when in middle school. When she went to high school she was determined never to be bullied again. And she succeeded. But to succeed she had to become the meanest toughest leader of bullies. She had to be fast and hurt others before they could hurt her.

The worst part was how terribly she treated her father. She was a parent's nightmare. He couldn't do anything to control her. And when he threatened to sent her to a strict boarding school she damaged his property. I am so grateful that my teenage children were not like her. Watching the way she bullied her peers and her father was depressing.

THE MOTHER'S DEATH
We don't know until the end of the book how and why Faith died. The story shows Faith's husband and two children Isabel and Felix grieving. We also don't know why Isabel feels guilt until the end of the book. But that was ok to learn later. I'm not complaining.

Most of the book had me feeling sad and depressed. A couple parts had me in tears. There is a happy ending for Isabel, but I felt disturbed more than happy. I would not recommend this book for me. I prefer entertainment. This is more of a psychological study.

The author's note at the end says "I started Let's Get Lost about three months after my mum died. I never got a chance to say good-bye to her, so I wrote this book instead."

WHAT I LIKED
Isabel meets a guy. I liked his parts. I also liked the concept of a shy sensitive bullied victim changing herself into something to stop the bullies. Unfortunately she hurt herself when she changed.

SEXUAL CONTENT
Some readers may not want to read about a sixteen-year-old having sex. There are three sex scenes briefly described, nothing explicit.

CAUTION SPOILER
The solution to the bullying problem was to pull Isabel out of school permanently. It's sad that the educational system forces kids to be part of social groups that they would never choose if they had a choice. It's a world of bully or be bullied.

DATA
Narrative mode 1st person Isabel. Story length 304 pages. Swearing language strong including religious swear words. Sexual language none. Number of sex scenes 3. Setting current day Brighton, UK. Copyright 2006. Genre young adult bullying and grief.

OTHER BOOKS
I've reviewed the following Sarra Manning books. Dates are copyright dates.
5 stars. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me 2011
4 ½ stars. Unsticky 2009
2 ½ stars. Let's Get Lost 2006
Really good book. Took awhile for me to get into it with it being British kinda themed but it was still a great book. Never knew what to expect next. Really emotional and relatable for a high school student. Isabel hid her shame and emotions behind her bad attitude but Smith brought the best out of her!