This book kept me completely interested and curious throughout the entire read. Loved he characters, the plot line, and of Course the setting! So romantic and definitely makes you want to travel! Highly recommend!!

This book gave me all the feels. It reminded me a lot of The Fault in our Stars but the characters are adults. Kleenex alert for this one!

I did not want it to end but also wanted to know what happened. I loved the writing style and would absolutely recommend this book to others.

Jack was an absolute chef-kiss and a gem of a character!

This is a very strong love story. What's not to love about strolling through Paris reading Hemingway? True just so romantic. This journey was the perfect setting for love.

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I wasn't sure what to expect with this book and it was heartbreaking like many Nicholas Sparks books, but The Map that Leads to You is highly enjoyable due to the flawless prose. I recommend it.

This is a book I thought I'd like, but I couldn't finish it. It just wasn't my cup of tea. The main characters were too shallow for me and I don't like books that change tense at whim.

I received an e-copy of this ebook for my honest review.
This book had the same effect on me that John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars” had. No, I take that back. This book had more of an effect on me. With John Green’s book I knew after a few chapters that things may not end well, and I cried. But, it was at The End of that book that I had a book hangover and an ugly cry. In this book I didn’t realize how bad things were until the last chapter of Part 1. And that is when I had an ugly cry. By the time I was three quarters through Part 2 was when I had my Big Ugly Cry. At the end, I had my book hangover, and another Big, Big Ugly Cry. I am getting this book in print, because this is one of those books that you have to have. You need it so you can hold it, touch the pages, and press against you when you have the Big Ugly Cry. This is one of those books that you get so, when you need to, you can have a Big Ugly Cry. It’s a book you’ll have with you until the end of your days. It is That Good!

Really enjoyed this romance book but the ending was a bit of a let down for me. However, I still liked it overall and discussed it more in my vlog on my YT channel: https://youtu.be/MjIrTDAq10U

St. Martin's Press and NetGalley provided me with an electronic copy of The Map That Leads to You. I was under no obligation to review this book and my opinion is freely given.

Heather and her best friends, Amy and Constance, are traveling through Europe after graduating college before settling down to their new lives. A chance meeting on the train throws Heather's carefully laid plans into a tailspin. Will Jack, handsome, dashing, and completely different, convince the young woman to follow her heart?

The Map That Leads to You was a good book, well written with great characterization, though it was entirely too predictable. I wanted to be swept away with the story, as a passive participant to the journey, but the path the plot took was not a surprise. I did like the conclusion, however, as it seemed natural that the future of Hannah and Jack was not yet written. The author did a good job of describing the various settings, capturing the feeling of a European journey quite well. Overall, The Map That Leads to You is a good novel and is one I would recommend to readers who like New Adult Romance.

The Map That Leads to You is such a beautiful book. I enjoyed reading every parts of it and I enjoyed every characters.

Heather has just graduated and decides to travel to Europe with her friends before starting her job in NY. On her journey she meets Jack, a fellow traveler who changes her life for good. He is following his grandfather's journal and visiting different places that his grandfather has written about. Heather and Jack are slowly falling in love while exploring Europe in their own unique way until one day, everything just changes. .
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This book is the reason why I may have stopped reading romances! No, it's not bad at all. It might sound cliche, and it is quite that predominantly. That does not stop the book from being a good, engaging read. I really enjoyed the travel bit that is really unique and incites so much wanderlust! I kept guessing what the climax might be and was totally surprised with what was in store for me. I was overwhelmed and awed by it's magnanimity and though, in the hindsight, again it does seem like a cliche climax, it still had the desired effect! I have a book hangover, I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about how things would be if things were different. There is always a plethora of emotions gripping me when I think of this book, and as mentioned earlier, it is maybe this that stops me from picking a romance. It's too personal, too whimsical and too overwhelming all together 🤯..
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Overall, this book was a delight to read and you must definitely pick it up if you enjoy romances. The added bit on travelling young is a cherry on top 😀
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There are some love stories you forget after a week of reading them, and then there are others you know after finishing will stick with you. You’ll remember the characters, the itty-bitty details about them, like their cats name or what their favorite book is. The Map That Leads to You is one of those books.

This love story is truly an unforgettable one. Beautifully written with smart dialogue and vivid characters that will stay with you long after you finish, I could not put this book down. And I’m not just talking about Jack and Heather, the main characters of the story. While they are unforgettable, you’ll also fall in love with the other characters in the novel. Constance, Amy, and Heather’s friendship is everything a friendship should be. As they themselves say, it’s a true. Constance and Raef’s relationship is a true. Everything about this book was a true for me (a saying you will understand after you read the novel)!

The Map That Leads to You is a blend of a perfect travel romance that packs one hell of an emotional punch. In other words, why wouldn’t you want to read it????!

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Tell me this will be a movie! I ordered the physical version of this book as well.

an enjoyable read. different. good characters. bit like a treasure hunt.

This book was so nice and lighthearted. I really enjoyed it's romance and the fact that it didn't have too much negative drama.

Apologies if this review is all over the place. It reflects, in a way, my thought process on the book, which I predominantly loved, but with a few slight issues. This is the story of Heather, who is on a journey across Europe with her two best friends, Constance and Amy, who are the best of friends (I adore their friendship and their characters). More to the point, it’s the story of Jack, who Heather met along the way and who she quickly realises has taken her heart.

Jack is on his own journey, via his grandfather (a soldier in the war)’s diary. There are extracts from this diary that show of his issues and feelings about being away from home. This was a lovely touch, although I was a little disappointed because ultimately I don’t think it told me what I wanted to know. The journey itself is shown to us via maps, which I would presume to be excellent, although my kindle wouldn’t show them to me. The book reads basically as if you’re on the trip too, with vivid descriptions of the locations.

This was the part of the story that I adored, in particular as they moved from museum to gallery to monument to reminder of atrocities that had taken place, gathering the odd little facts that you devour as a tourist. As well as this, the actual ‘action’, that is the happenings, were excellent for me, although to be honest I think the fact that I leapt for them meant I was taking the wrong thing from this book. As I said this book was about the journey, and so in this way it was more supposed to be about the mundane, the everyday, the love story between Jack and Heather, which was beautiful in terms of romance, but at times I was waiting for something to upset the balance a little as opposed to just listening to very intellectual back and forths. I blame this on a short attention span and my love of rom coms and thrillers, where it’s all about what will happen next, as opposed to being in the moment and savouring every last look or action.

I really enjoyed this book even though it didn’t tick all the boxes for me, I had no feelings on either Jack or Heather, and it was telling for me that in just a few lines I felt and hearted the love between her best friend Constance and the lovely Raef, and in fact somehow felt I knew Constance and Amy more than Heather, although when the lead is telling the story that can be inevitable.

It’s a tough one to rate, trying to balance the lack of an impression made by the leads against everything else, which was all encompassing and excellent. The ending was a shocker that unfortunately didn’t affect me, which surprised me. Saying all of this I think people who DO connect will declare this book to be a standout. Definitely worth a read and I’m very glad I did. Thanks so much to St. Martin’s Press and Netgalley for this book in return for an honest review.

Rating:4/5

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Heather and her two best friends, Amy and Constance, have just graduated college and are off for a summer in Europe together before settling down in their adult lives. The last thing Heather expects is to fall in love, but there he is, challenging her thoughts on life and opening her up to new experiences.

I really liked the idea of Jack following his grandfather's post World War II travels around Europe. I liked some parts of the story better than other. The author's writing was very lyrical, though, so I wouldn't hesitate to read another book by him – perhaps even a sequel to this book?

Heather is taking a summer to travel Europe. Meeting Jack was not in her sights let alone falling in love with him. Monninger took us through Europe without even leaving our chair and made us fall in love with this couple while our hearts were breaking for them too.

A journey of young lovers to what really matters in life.
J.P. Monninger weaves poignant truths about what really matters in life in the fictional encounter of two young adults, Heather and Jack, in the novel The Map that Leads to You. Chance brings the two twenty-somethings together while each is on their own journey across Europe. Heather is traveling as a college graduation present to herself and last hurrah before she enters the hectic and fast paced corporate world. Jack is on a trip of rediscovery, following the journal his beloved grandfather wrote as he made his way home after WWII.

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover so this is going to sound really nit picky but, the only reason I gave the story 4.75 starts was because of the title. Maybe I just wasn’t seeing it, but I felt like the story never fit with title and that bothered me. In my mind the title is a synopsis of what the book is about and I never got that with The Map that Leads to You. That is really a petty concern considering how much I enjoyed the book. J.P. does a wonderful job of giving the reader all the aspects of a great story; solid/personable characters, great visual storytelling, and an intriguing plot. From start to finish the story is engaging because of the great dialogue, budding romance, and its ability to bring out feelings and emotions in the reader. Not only did I feel excited for Heather and Jack but I was reminded of how I felt as I fell in love with my husband 22 years ago.









If this was all there was to say about the book it would be well worth reading. But, in addition to being great fiction, J.P. was able to make me think about what is important in my own life and what am I doing to cherish and nurture the things that mean the most. I appreciate the skill an author must have to make the reader evaluate the condition of their own heart and life just by reading a fictional story. There is no lecturing or philosophical waxing just a profound story that will touch your heart. Its a great weekend read and appropriate for older teens.

The love story in this book is great. So romantic and sweet but not overly fake and ridiculous like some can be. The love story was the best part of the book. All other interactions and other aspects of the book were meh... i loved how heather predicted something was not right about Jack; that there was something he wasn't telling her. There were moments of laugh out loud humor, moments of sadness, moments of expectation and sit on the edge of your chair cheering for the characters, moments of boredom where I just skipped over paragraphs to get back to the good stuff, and moments of delight. I found myself trying to flip to the next page over and over at the end not realizing the book was done. It was a strange sudden ending. There were times in the book where all of a sudden there was a scene change. It was weird. I'm like ok I guess they kissed in such and such city and then bam they're in Italy. Ok? It just seems a little disjointed. The flow was funny at certain points. Loved all the travel references. Overall it was a pretty good book. Easy pretty quick read (especially if you skip some).
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Romantic new-adult fiction that follows a girl who meets a boy during a whirlwind post-college trip to Western Europe. The characters’ smarty-pants banter (nobody talks like that!) gets a bit tedious, and the novel is a bit too drawn out generally, but the latter portion kept me interested. It would be a good choice for YA armchair travelers, although it’s maybe a bit juvenile for some older adult readers. There have already been comparisons made to Nicholas Sparks and The Fault in our Stars, which I think are apt enough.