The rest of the group are a bit older now, so they're in that phase where they seem to be trying to 'find themselves', or whatever you do when you're not a pimply teen but not yet a crusty old fart. Yes, there's still an underlying vibe of (annoying) teen angst running through the story, but it's mainly from Gert. This is my first Rainbow Rowell book, but I'm aware that she's written other novels and whatnot. <-I didn't even know they'd broken up - bonus! So, this volume is mostly about getting the gang back together. She's on the cover, it's alluded to in the blurb, and her resurrection happens in the first few pages. Now, before you get pissy, that's not a spoiler. The big thing about this one is that Gert is back from the dead. While I'm sure I would have gotten more out of Find Your Way Home if I had been a longtime reader of these guys, I felt as though Rowell did a good enough job explaining the plot up til now for someone like myself who only had a basic working knowledge of the characters. So, when I saw that there was a new run starting I kind of wondered if I'd be able to keep up. My point is that I really didn't know the characters well, and had no idea how that run ended. I read the first few volumes of the original Runaways, and then for random reasons I can't really remember, never finished it out.
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