This review was originally posted on Andi's ABCs 
 I have been waiting a really really long time for The Distance from A to Z to come out. I'm a huge sucker for cute contemporary romances and I was told that this was a mere book by someone that read an early copy. But as excited I was for reading it I was weary when I saw it billed as a book for Stephanie Perkins and Miranda Kenneally lovers. To me those are hard shoes to fill. Stephanie and Miranda are two of my favorite YA contemporary authors and people so I did take pause. I knew I was going to read it but I did so with lower expectations. Now I can tell you I was wrong to do that because if you love Perkins and Kenneally you really will love The Distance from A to Z. So fun and fantastic. 
 Action: 
 I will admit if I was going to mark this book down for anything it was the French. There was a lot but the translations were always there so I couldn't even fault the story for that. I mean French was a huge 'character' in the book so it made sense it was in there. Now the baseball thing in the other hand...give me all the baseball. I'm a huge huge fan on baseball so I loved that that was the thread through the story. 
 Background: 
 I loved the setting being on a college campus in New Hampshire. There is something about putting high school kids in a setting with less supervision that helps to make stories like The Distance from A to Z work for me. These kids were good and didn't get into too much trouble so it made it make more sense that they had the amount of freedom they had. Plus I loved the trip that was thrown in. That really added to the story. It all was just written really well and just worked. 
 Characters: 
 Zeke and Abby. Abby and Zeke. I flipping loved these two. They had that kind of friendship/relationship that I love reading about and watching in TV and movies. There was a natural chemistry and push pull. They had things in common but were so different in so many ways. Because of those differences I fell in love with them. I constantly found myself wanting more of them and when I finished I wanted to know more of their story. 
 And then there was Alice and Abby's brothers. They were all parts of the story but in the sidelines. We got to know a lot about them through Abby but I wanted more of all of them. Abby's family sounded like so much fun (especially as the baseball fan I am) and Alice has a story that needs to be told. I loved her relationship with Abby. As people say soul mates don't have to be romantic and Abby and Alice proved that. 
 Final Thoughts: 
 This book was just what I needed. Actually I have said more than once that I feel like it was written for me. It had everything I love in a book and it left me wanting more. After 300ish pages, which I read 97% in a sitting, I ended just wanting more words. It was fun and emotional and just really well written. I had high hopes when I heard about this one and Natalie Blitt did not let me down. Don't miss this really great book.