The Distance Between Lost and Found

Hallelujah doesn’t think she lives up to her name. Not after what happened with Luke. She used to have friends, a social life. Now, all that’s gone. It’s been six months since the incident and all Hallelujah wants is to be unseen. And now she’s back at the place it all started. It was supposed to be a week of redemption, say her parents, but that’s so hard to do when her old friends and Luke just won’t let it go. Not even Rachel, a newcomer blissfully unaware of Hallelujah’s past, can make her feel better. So when Rachel, Hallelujah, and Hallelujah’s former friend Jonah veer off of the trail while hiking, they have to put aside the past and focus on surviving.

The Distance Between Lost and Found is thrilling and refreshing. It’s simpler than what is being published more recently, especially because it acts as a stand-alone and I am fully satisfied with the ending. It proves to me that an author doesn’t have to go over the top with a complex plot and an even more complex setting. Instead, it focuses in more on the characters and what they are thinking. Each action they perform is deliberate. It is an incredible debut.