Searching For Paradise

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Searching for Paradise is a story about three friends, Lucas, Mike, and Declan set in the year 1984. These friends are tired of working their 8 to 5 jobs. They decide that it is time to quit their jobs and search for their paradise. This so happens to be driving from California to Boston where they plan to catch a plane to Europe.
Through their journey, the friends crashed on the floors and sofas of friends and family. The author wrote Searching for Paradise in the first person from Mike's perspective.

Searching for Paradise is not a fast paced, action packed novel. Much like driving across the country, the pace was a little slow. I felt that it was a little too slow for my personal taste. I felt that the author wrote this more

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