Peter Cabot Gets Lost

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.

Lovely book with great characterization, humor, sweetness, increasingly kinky sex, and no third act breakup! The poor little rich kid/prickly scholarship kid dynamic is played out perfectly as Peter and Caleb go from uncomfortable road trip acquaintances to friends and then to lovers. I was born shortly after the year the book takes place so it's also a kind of nostalgia for me for a time when people used actual maps and phone booths. Will definitely add to my list of comfort reads.