Peter Cabot Gets Lost
Ratings6
Average rating4.2
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Ratings6
Average rating4.2
Summer 1960: After years of scraping by, Caleb Murphy has graduated from college and is finally getting to start a new life. Except he suddenly has no way to get from Boston to Los Angeles. Then, to add to his misery, there's perfect, privileged Peter Cabot offering to drive him. Caleb can't refuse, even though the idea of spending a week in the car with a man whose luggage probably costs more than everything Caleb owns makes him want to scream. Peter Cabot would do pretty much anything to skip out on his father's presidential campaign, including driving across the country with a classmate who can't stand him. After all, he's had plenty of practice with people not liking him much--his own family, for example. The farther Peter gets from his family's expectations, the more he starts to think about what he really wants, and the more certain he becomes that what he wants is more time with prickly, grumpy Caleb Murphy.As they put more miles between themselves and their pasts, they both start to imagine a future where they can have things they never thought possible.
Series
3 primary books4 released booksThe Cabots is a 4-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Cat Sebastian and Jamie Beck.
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This was a wonderful road trip romance and definitely my favourite of Sebastian's books I've read. Though it does reference the first book [b:Tommy Cabot Was Here 57658644 Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1) Cat Sebastian https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1617808187l/57658644.SY75.jpg 90312887], this can be read on its own (Peter is Tommy's nephew and has a very brief appearance in that book).Peter makes a compulsive decision to offer Caleb a ride from Boston to Los Angeles at the end of the school term. He's watched Caleb for a long time and can't help himself when he sees Caleb stranded in their school's parking lot. Caleb has watched Peter too but with distain because of who Peter's family is and that he comes from a world Caleb could never be a part of. The Cabots are basically a fictional Kennedy family - brown hair, blue eyed, old blood and politics. Caleb is from rural Tennessee and, while he's proud of where he comes from, knows it's a far cry from the glitz of a Cabot's life in Boston and Washington, D.C.The book takes place over the 7-8 day drive but feels like a full summer romp - so while it's technically an insta-love trope, it really doesn't seem that rushed. Both characters are likeable and they're compatible with each other so it works. This has a HFN ending and the characters do constantly angst about the “expiration date” on their relationship throughout the book but then it works out in the end.This does take place in the early 1960's so references to the Cold War and prices of food and motels will transport you, the author avoids any real references to violence against homosexual people so no trigger warnings are needed for that. Caleb kind of alludes to bullies and beatings from his past but he also says he's gone frequently to gay bars in Boston for hook ups during his college years and didn't face any possible real world consequences for that.Overall, a very enjoyable period romance that I'd definitely recommend for fans of road trip plots, 1960's history and life references, and very comfortable and warm romances.
