I fell in love with Zoje Stage when I read her first book Baby Teeth and she blew me away again with Wonderland, so I couldn’t wait for her latest book Getaway to be released and I am happy to report that it did not disappoint. I loved this just as much as her first two books.
Imogen and Beck are sisters and they have been best friends with Tilda since high school. After an incident in college, which Imogen refers to as “The Thing”, her friendship with Tilda fractured and now twenty years later, they do not really have anything to do with each other. Tilda and Beck are still friends and after Imogen survives a mass shooting at her Synagogue and has pretty much become a hermit, Beck decides they all need to reunite and go backpacking at the Grand Canyon. A week in nature with no electronics is just what they need. It sounds good, but as their past tensions build up and their supplies go missing and then a mysterious stranger appears, this girls’ backpacking trip becomes a week of survival.
I really connected with Imogen and Beck’s relationship. Beck is older and is the take charge type, whereas Imogen is more likely to just go along. And that reminded me of me and my older sister. I love my sister, but she is the type that since she is older, she thinks she knows it all and at times it is just better to go along with her rather than start drama. So when Imogen raised concerns about their supplies going missing and having the stranger at camp and Beck pretty much blew her off, I could understand how frustrated she felt. I had such sympathy for Imogen. Right at the beginning of the book we learn how she was a survivor of a mass shooting and the impact it has had on her life. I had to give her kudos for leaving the safe cocoon of her home to go on this adventure. I also loved the growth that Imogen had. She started off as very timid (and rightfully so with what has happened to her), but by the end of this book, she became one strong, badass woman.
I loved the Grand Canyon setting and the visualization of going backpacking and all that it entailed. It kind of made me want to just pack up and go. That is until Tilda was explaining how she thought backpacking would be a piece of cake since she is used to hiking and is in great shape, and how it in no way was. LOL! I loved how Stage made it all come to life. I could visualize everything, from climbing over the rocks and cliffs, to the campsite and sleeping out in the open and gazing up at the stars and also the terror of what was happening once the stranger came into the book.
I don’t want to say anything about what went on with the mystery stranger, only that once he appeared Imogene, Beck and Tilda were in for the fight of their lives. This book started off slow and steady, but the further along it went the more the tension and suspense started picking up and by the end of the book I was on the edge of my seat.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2022
Getaway is a bit of a departure from Zoje’s previous works which prominently featured supernatural characters and environments. In contrast, Getaway takes place over the course of a few days on trip to the Grand Canyon. The trip was planned to reunite sisters Imogen and Beck, with their somewhat estranged friend, Tilda. Through the course of novel, we discover ‘the thing’ that led to the separation, but that fades to the background as the girls discover that someone has been repeatedly sneaking into their camps and pilfering supplies.As the group settles in to the base of the canyon, they discover that their past isn’t the most pressing concern.Getaway is a wonderful story of friendship and the heartbreak that can destroy those relationships. It features three believable characters who have their own dark histories that are affecting their present day lives and openness to one another. The tension is real because all of the sources of tension are real, unfortunately experienced by too many people, women in particular.But Getaway is a story of change and hope. The change is a struggle, but together, real life horrors can be overcome.This is an excellent addition to Zoje’s already impressive resume and leaves me hoping for more.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2022
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