A real page-turner, easy read and well written. You will laugh and you will cry. You will remember your first love.I cried my eyes out, I cried my eyes out, I cried my eyes out, I cried my eyes out, I cried my eyes out...This is not your typical James Patterson novel, but a very romantic and heartbreaking story.

When I read this the first time, it was called the Fault in Our Stars--and it was better.

DNF on Page 55.I borrowed this from the library a while back after seeing Penguin Platform's YouTube channel discuss the book. As someone who loves reading road trip novels, this sounded like my cup of tea. But after starting the book, I was finding the pacing incredibly fast which made the trip a little unrealistic in my view. I put the book down for a while (talking few months) and returned to it recently to see if I could get any further through but again, I struggled and simply concluded tha...

Axi Moore had a big surprise for her best friend. Robinson was one she never seemed to be able to shock, but this time she hoped she could. Cutting classes for the afternoon, she had arranged to meet him at Bernie’s, their favourite hang-out, at 1.30 – when he walked in the door his big smile said it all. But she finally did it – when she told him her plans, and that he was part of it, she waited for his answer; “hell yes” was all the answer she needed.Axi was GG to Robinson – Good Girl, he call...

Quick and easy read. Reminder of how fragile life is and the wonderful feeling of being in love

If you enjoyed the fault in our stars by John green I would definitely recommend this book! It's a lot of fun in being a road trip book, but has a lot of sadness as well. It isn't the best book out there, but I enjoyed it while I was reading it.

Sixteen year old Axi Moore decided it was time to stop being the good girl and time to live life and go on an adventure. Her best friend Robinson couldn't believe that, Axi was capable of being anything other than a good girl (GG) which he nicknamed her, but he would soon be proven wrong. Together the two of them set off on a road trip where they would discover a world they never knew existed and do things they only dreamed of.Living life to the fullest and exploring wonderful places along the w...

This was a very sad book about teens who go on a journey together after meeting in a hospital. I won't tell you how they met but I will say that it was love at first sight and they go across the country to escape their life. In the end they find that they can't escape life but they can be together and learn life lessons together. This was such a heart warming story about true love and how you find the one you're meant to be with in strange ways and it is always worth it. This was not a normal Ja...

*SOB* OMG OMG *SOB* OMG!So I think both Little, Brown and Kleenex need to get together to promote this book, tissues trust me you'll need them!How can I put into words how brilliant, heart-breaking. emotionally devastating and amazingly fantastic this book is, I can't unless you experience this book for yourselves you just wont understand, it's so much more than those words, the thought that it's based on a real -life story from James Patterson's life makes it even more meaningful and heartfelt....

I should no longer be surprised that the greatest love stories always end in tragedy. Just think of some of the best works ever written and you’ll understand that a romance lover doesn't have an easy life.But what is wrong with this specific story? Writing a romance story isn’t easy, I assure you. It needs to be amazing and leave you with bated breath, without being absurd or repetitive. In the end, it has to leave you something - good or bad - but without that bittersweet feeling in your mouth

***SPOILERS***Sigh. Seriously, James?? OK, I can almost forgive the complete and total ripoff of Fault in our Stars, as I am sure we will be seeing a lot of those in the upcoming months, but, that aside, the utter implausibility of this book made me slightly insane. To begin...this entire whirlwind adventure took place in three weeks. The drove from Oregon to California, California to Vegas, Vegas to wherever the hell they were when they stopped in a hospital for a couple of days, hospital to Ne...

Short yet sweet story about two young people who fall in love despite the challenges they hope to outrun.I came across First Love and for a couple of reasons it caught my attention. First, I’ve seen it compared to the The Fault in Our Stars many times and second, there was a road trip in the story. Putting these two elements together, I was sure First Love would capture my interest.In this novel, Axi Moore and her best friend Robinson decide to throw caution to the wind and take an epic road tri...

First Love really felt like a much inferior version of The Fault in Our Stars. Really if you want to depress yourself by reading about young love and dying at least read John Green's poetic description and character building. I'm afraid James Patterson doesn't come close and he gives no moral uplift to couter the tragedy. Young love and living life to its fullest is great in theory, but a spontaneous cross country trip can still be exciting without breaking laws. I don't care who is dying, steal...

My first James Patterson! This reminded me a lot of The Fault in our stars crossed with Nick and Norah's infinite playlist. James Patterson, you can tell - is a master storyteller. The way that this was written, you couldn't tell that a man wrote it and I loved that. I wanted to cry - I am sadist to myself that way. I wasn't able to. Guess I went ahead of myself. Maybe I just wanted to feel this story and channel it through my emotions. Well, I can say that this was enough to awaken and invoke s...

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆[6/10]✅It is a love story. ✅It has a crazy road trip. ✅It has first crush turning into formidable love. ✅It has cancer. ✅It has heart break. ✅It has all the drama to make your eyes misty and heart racing.The only misfit in the whole affair is James Patterson. JAMES PATTERSON!!!!!

1. I hated this book. Hated. I didn't cry. I didn't feel any emotion when Robinson died. Everything was annoying to me.2. Annoying things: the characters trying to sound smart but then explaining the vocabulary words or book references which made the reader feel annoyed because it assumes that the reader doesn't know anything. The use of the words gobsmacked and scalawag too many times. The lack of emotion I felt for anything in this book. That Robinson left his family for Axi and never did anyt...

Poor attempt at describing a first love. I was really surprised to see the authors glorifying two runaways and stealing a car. Gee, we all had first loves but didn't do things like that. I think Patterson hardly even wrote this book and if he did, I may stop reading him altogether. And to think he co authored this book in memory of his first love who died young. What a shame this was the forum he used to express their time together.

"You have to remember the good stuff, Axi." ~Robinson~ This book the second time round after 5 years....just pure wow! and the story and the encouragement given to one of the characters to just live life, love it, and enjoy the time you have here on earth.When you learn by the halfway point once one of them (won't say who) coughs up blood, then you learn how the two met etc, that's when Patterson goes on this journey that I guess was a real eye opener for me in such a way. There's a quote that

Doesn't James Patterson write mysteries, or he is just known for them? Anyway, he wrote "First Love" with Emily Raymond. (But look at the typeface of both their names, and you can see who is marketed more) Maybe that's why this book is kind of a mess: it's muddled, unfocused and kind of dumb. Yes, I know it is about teenagers, and they may be the target market, but I thought the book felt dumbed-down. And I wish the characters were more likeable. Halfway through the book, I stopped caring about

Sigh. I'm not sure how to review this book, so here is my ramble. This book started out adorable and young adult-ish. The familiar good girl with a crush on her best friend that could charm an angry wasp with a crooked smile. Then somewhere around page 100 it became something else, sort of outlandish and Bonnie & Clyde. Then suddenly it was 'The Fault in Our Stars'. And even though you knew how it would end, it still gets you to sob at the end. Not what I initially expected. I think because the