Highway Blue ★★★☆☆

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★★★☆☆

Highway Blue by Ailsa McFarlane is a fiction book about a woman on the run with her estranged husband.

I checked this book out from the library.

​Anne Marie married Cal when she was 19 years old and then he disappeared. Two years later he shows back up in trouble and asking for help. After a scuffle in an alley that leaves a man dead, Anne Marie and Cal are on the run. They work their way south towards the town where Anne Marie grew up. Along the way, they try to figure out what happened between them and if there is anything still there moving forward.

McFarlane is 24 years old, so even though I didn't love this book, I've got to give her credit, because I'm 31 and a'int done nothing. That being said, this book fell a little flat for me. I love road novels and even took a class on them in college, which is why I chose to read this book. There's something nostalgic and deeply satisfying to me about the open road. Also, McFarlane was born in Seattle, which is where I currently reside. An interesting choice McFarlane made was using cities and places that don't exist. I literally spent half the book trying to figure out where they were but I guess it didn't matter. It read California tho, in my opinion.

If you liked Highway Blue, I also recommend Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby, Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, and Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck.

Happy reading 🙂

Ms.Bjork