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Let's Get Lost is a YoungAdult novel by Sarra Manning.
Some girls are born to be bad...Isabel Clark is one of them. Her friends are terrified of her, her teachers can't get through to her...her family doesn't understand her. And that's just the way she likes it. See, when no one can get near you, no one will know what keeps you awake at night, what you're afraid of, what has broken your heart...But then Isabel meets the enigmatic Smith, who can see right through her act. Bit by bit he chips away at her armour, and though she fights hard to keep hold of her cool, and her secrets, Isabel's falling for him, and coming apart at the seams when she does...
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!! The book provides examples of:
* AcademicAlphaBitch: Isabel is not only the meanest girl at her school, she's also the cleverest, which she says isn't because she's a natural genius or anything, she just put in a lot of work to be top of the pecking order.
* AffectionateNickname: Isabel gets her name shortened to "Is" by Dot, though usually when Dot wants to ingratiate herself to Isabel. Smith starts calling her that later as well.
** Her mother used to call her "Belle". [[spoiler: At the end of the book after they've reconciled, her dad calls her that too.]]
* AgeGapRomance: Isabel's dad was a lecturer at university when he met her mother, who was a student at the time, though they got together after she'd graduated.
* TheAlcoholic: A downplayed example but Isabel's father is distant from his children (Isabel in particular) and seems to spend a lot of his time either at work or shut up in his office with a bottle of wine. He proves to be rather touchy about the subject when Isabel pointedly brings this up.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Felix rarely misses an opportunity to make fun of Isabel or try randomly attacking her. Isabel usually retaliates by giving him a DopeSlap or in one instance, a wedgie when he answers a phonecall from Smith before she can get to it.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: A rare example in which the alpha bitch is actually the ''protagonist'', though by the time Isabel's friends do backstab her, it's when she's already undergone a lot of CharacterDevelopment and realised she doesn't want to be the cruel, mean girl she was being...which is [[spoiler: Dot's]] cue to become the new Queen Bee and leave Isabel's reputation in tatters.
* BrokenBird: Despite Isabel putting up an uncaring front, she spends the entire novel trying to cope with her mother's death and believes she's unworthy of being loved because of it and her bullying ways. It's not until she meets Smith that she starts to overcome this and at the end of the book it's made clear she'll never stop missing her mum.
* BrainyBrunette: Isabel comes off a lot more well-read and observant than her peers and puts up a fairly convincing charade of being eighteen for Smith's benefit for a while, explaining she hasn't started university yet because she's taking a gap year. She gets it from her Dad, even if she's loathe to admit that.
* ContinuityNod: ''Let's Get Lost'' is clearly set in the same universe as Sarra Manning's first teen novel, ''Guitar Girl'', as both Molly and Jane appear as Smith's housemates and make oblique references to the plot of ''Guitar Girl.''
* DarkestHour: In a short frame of time, Isabel's father discovers she's been lying to him and has been seeing boy for months behind his back (and slept with him several times), lied to him about staying at her friend's house and grounds her, taking away all her freedom and most of her possessions. It turns out that Isabel's lackies decided to backstab Isabel when her guard was down and told him all about it - and they told Smith Isabel was lying about her real age, to which Smith gives Isabel a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and dump her. Isabel is left without her friends, reputation, boyfriend and is isolated in her own house. It's when she discovers her father is planning to ship her off to boarding school that she finally snaps.
* TheDogBitesBack: Eventually, after Isabel becomes defrosted by Smith, [[spoiler: Dot]] seizes the chance to dethrone Isabel and become the new AlphaBitch, calling Isabel out on how she always mocked and insulted her friends whenever they were interested in boys but turned into a [[LoveMakesYouDumb pathetic, gushing idiot]] the second Smith entered the picture and that Isabel had always underestimated her.
* GentlemanSnarker: Isabel's father is ''incredibly'' snarky but he has more class about it than his daughter and tends to become crisper and more arch the angrier he is. Smith is terrified of him when they finally do meet.
* HopelessWithTech: Isabel comments her father threatens to take her TV out of her room numerous times but never actually follows through because he doesn't actually know how and won't admit it. He also tries to go through her phone to find evidence of her wrongdoing but doesn't get very far with that either.
* MaybeEverAfter: The novel ends with Smith having forgiven Isabel for lying to him and Isabel still very much in love with him, but Smith says that while he does care greatly about Isabel, they moved way too fast the first time around and he still isn't over his one-sided crush on Molly. Isabel remains hopeful that with time Smith will love her back as much as she does him and it seems like they will rekindle things, but with complete honesty this time around.
* OhCrap: Isabel's reaction when she comes home to find a policewoman waiting for her to ask why her coat was found in the back of a totalled car that was reported stolen earlier that evening.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Isabel's mother begs her to stay by her side after they get into a serious car accident, with Isabel's mum taking the brunt of the impact. Isabel tries her best to do so, but eventually it's clear that her mother's injuries are too severe and she isn't going to make it.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Isabel been more upfront about what exactly happened when her mother died, there wouldn't be as much tension between her and her father at the beginning of the story. [[spoiler: She also doesn't admit until the end that thought her father despised her for persuading him to sign the DNR form and wished Isabel had died instead. He's horrified to learn that Isabel not only believe this of him, but that she walked around for nearly a year afterwards still believing it.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Isabel overhears some girls at a bar Smith takes her to talking about how good he is in bed and comment that fucking him was almost like a rite of passage - she also overhears them insulting her. Smith does admit he slept with a lot of people in his first semester, but stopped after he fell for Molly.
* ShoutOut: Isabel's name is from a Henry Archer novel, Literature/ThePortraitOfALady.
** Smith's first name is [[Literature/ToKillAMockingBird Atticus]], which Isabel wastes no time in mocking.
* ShrinkingViolet: When Smith point-blank asks Isabel why she's so rude, Isabel decides to be honest with him (for once) and admits she's shy, so she often doesn't know what to say to people and makes her come across antisocial and rude, so she just started being rude because that's what people assumed of her anyway.
* SitcomArchNemesis: When Isabel meets Smith's housemates, she gets along with Molly just fine, but she and Jane are pretty much at each other's throats from the word go and any scene they have to share is full of SnarkToSnarkCombat.
* SlapSlapKiss: Between Isabel and Smith, so very much.
* SlutShaming: Happens quite a lot in the book. In fact, Isabel's EstablishingCharacterMoment is persuading her BetaBitch friend Nancy to follow a girl who was talking about them behind their backs into the toilets, take a picture of her giving a guy a blowjob and then send the picture to everyone's phone. Isabel then claims she never outright ''told'' Nancy to take the picture but knew she'd rise to the bait anyway.
** Isabel gets slutshamed by her friends after she falls for Smith.
* SupremeChef: Isabel is a very good cook, which she attributes to having to cook for her and her brother when her Dad was held up at his job and their mother was terrible at it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ella and Nancy, two of Isabel's BetaBitch followers, are rarely seen without each other and don't get much character development outside of being mean and not as smart as Isabel. Dot gets more focus since she's the only one who knew Isabel before her rise to power as the queen bee.
* {{Tsundere}}: Isabel is a very harsh Type-A, being bitchy and snide with virtually everyone and mostly becoming dere-dere around Smith, though she does show a few soft spots towards Dot and Felix. Deconstructed in that Isabel's Tsundere personality happened because she was bullied so much that she developed her incredibly abrasive outer shell to protect herself and is terrified of being nice to anyone. It's only by hanging out with Smith and his university friends who are above the social darwinism of Isabel's school that allows her to start letting her guard down. Smith even calls her out on how she "blew hot and cold" all the time.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Isabel gushes about the colour of Smith's eyes several times, commenting it was the only reason she let him kiss her when they first met, even though he thought she was someone else at the time.
* WildTeenParty: A few crop up in the book, with Isabel and her friends mostly preferring to try getting into places where students will be. The book opens with them attending one such house party where Isabel meets Smith.
Some girls are born to be bad...Isabel Clark is one of them. Her friends are terrified of her, her teachers can't get through to her...her family doesn't understand her. And that's just the way she likes it. See, when no one can get near you, no one will know what keeps you awake at night, what you're afraid of, what has broken your heart...But then Isabel meets the enigmatic Smith, who can see right through her act. Bit by bit he chips away at her armour, and though she fights hard to keep hold of her cool, and her secrets, Isabel's falling for him, and coming apart at the seams when she does...
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!! The book provides examples of:
* AcademicAlphaBitch: Isabel is not only the meanest girl at her school, she's also the cleverest, which she says isn't because she's a natural genius or anything, she just put in a lot of work to be top of the pecking order.
* AffectionateNickname: Isabel gets her name shortened to "Is" by Dot, though usually when Dot wants to ingratiate herself to Isabel. Smith starts calling her that later as well.
** Her mother used to call her "Belle". [[spoiler: At the end of the book after they've reconciled, her dad calls her that too.]]
* AgeGapRomance: Isabel's dad was a lecturer at university when he met her mother, who was a student at the time, though they got together after she'd graduated.
* TheAlcoholic: A downplayed example but Isabel's father is distant from his children (Isabel in particular) and seems to spend a lot of his time either at work or shut up in his office with a bottle of wine. He proves to be rather touchy about the subject when Isabel pointedly brings this up.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Felix rarely misses an opportunity to make fun of Isabel or try randomly attacking her. Isabel usually retaliates by giving him a DopeSlap or in one instance, a wedgie when he answers a phonecall from Smith before she can get to it.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: A rare example in which the alpha bitch is actually the ''protagonist'', though by the time Isabel's friends do backstab her, it's when she's already undergone a lot of CharacterDevelopment and realised she doesn't want to be the cruel, mean girl she was being...which is [[spoiler: Dot's]] cue to become the new Queen Bee and leave Isabel's reputation in tatters.
* BrokenBird: Despite Isabel putting up an uncaring front, she spends the entire novel trying to cope with her mother's death and believes she's unworthy of being loved because of it and her bullying ways. It's not until she meets Smith that she starts to overcome this and at the end of the book it's made clear she'll never stop missing her mum.
* BrainyBrunette: Isabel comes off a lot more well-read and observant than her peers and puts up a fairly convincing charade of being eighteen for Smith's benefit for a while, explaining she hasn't started university yet because she's taking a gap year. She gets it from her Dad, even if she's loathe to admit that.
* ContinuityNod: ''Let's Get Lost'' is clearly set in the same universe as Sarra Manning's first teen novel, ''Guitar Girl'', as both Molly and Jane appear as Smith's housemates and make oblique references to the plot of ''Guitar Girl.''
* DarkestHour: In a short frame of time, Isabel's father discovers she's been lying to him and has been seeing boy for months behind his back (and slept with him several times), lied to him about staying at her friend's house and grounds her, taking away all her freedom and most of her possessions. It turns out that Isabel's lackies decided to backstab Isabel when her guard was down and told him all about it - and they told Smith Isabel was lying about her real age, to which Smith gives Isabel a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and dump her. Isabel is left without her friends, reputation, boyfriend and is isolated in her own house. It's when she discovers her father is planning to ship her off to boarding school that she finally snaps.
* TheDogBitesBack: Eventually, after Isabel becomes defrosted by Smith, [[spoiler: Dot]] seizes the chance to dethrone Isabel and become the new AlphaBitch, calling Isabel out on how she always mocked and insulted her friends whenever they were interested in boys but turned into a [[LoveMakesYouDumb pathetic, gushing idiot]] the second Smith entered the picture and that Isabel had always underestimated her.
* GentlemanSnarker: Isabel's father is ''incredibly'' snarky but he has more class about it than his daughter and tends to become crisper and more arch the angrier he is. Smith is terrified of him when they finally do meet.
* HopelessWithTech: Isabel comments her father threatens to take her TV out of her room numerous times but never actually follows through because he doesn't actually know how and won't admit it. He also tries to go through her phone to find evidence of her wrongdoing but doesn't get very far with that either.
* MaybeEverAfter: The novel ends with Smith having forgiven Isabel for lying to him and Isabel still very much in love with him, but Smith says that while he does care greatly about Isabel, they moved way too fast the first time around and he still isn't over his one-sided crush on Molly. Isabel remains hopeful that with time Smith will love her back as much as she does him and it seems like they will rekindle things, but with complete honesty this time around.
* OhCrap: Isabel's reaction when she comes home to find a policewoman waiting for her to ask why her coat was found in the back of a totalled car that was reported stolen earlier that evening.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Isabel's mother begs her to stay by her side after they get into a serious car accident, with Isabel's mum taking the brunt of the impact. Isabel tries her best to do so, but eventually it's clear that her mother's injuries are too severe and she isn't going to make it.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Isabel been more upfront about what exactly happened when her mother died, there wouldn't be as much tension between her and her father at the beginning of the story. [[spoiler: She also doesn't admit until the end that thought her father despised her for persuading him to sign the DNR form and wished Isabel had died instead. He's horrified to learn that Isabel not only believe this of him, but that she walked around for nearly a year afterwards still believing it.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Isabel overhears some girls at a bar Smith takes her to talking about how good he is in bed and comment that fucking him was almost like a rite of passage - she also overhears them insulting her. Smith does admit he slept with a lot of people in his first semester, but stopped after he fell for Molly.
* ShoutOut: Isabel's name is from a Henry Archer novel, Literature/ThePortraitOfALady.
** Smith's first name is [[Literature/ToKillAMockingBird Atticus]], which Isabel wastes no time in mocking.
* ShrinkingViolet: When Smith point-blank asks Isabel why she's so rude, Isabel decides to be honest with him (for once) and admits she's shy, so she often doesn't know what to say to people and makes her come across antisocial and rude, so she just started being rude because that's what people assumed of her anyway.
* SitcomArchNemesis: When Isabel meets Smith's housemates, she gets along with Molly just fine, but she and Jane are pretty much at each other's throats from the word go and any scene they have to share is full of SnarkToSnarkCombat.
* SlapSlapKiss: Between Isabel and Smith, so very much.
* SlutShaming: Happens quite a lot in the book. In fact, Isabel's EstablishingCharacterMoment is persuading her BetaBitch friend Nancy to follow a girl who was talking about them behind their backs into the toilets, take a picture of her giving a guy a blowjob and then send the picture to everyone's phone. Isabel then claims she never outright ''told'' Nancy to take the picture but knew she'd rise to the bait anyway.
** Isabel gets slutshamed by her friends after she falls for Smith.
* SupremeChef: Isabel is a very good cook, which she attributes to having to cook for her and her brother when her Dad was held up at his job and their mother was terrible at it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ella and Nancy, two of Isabel's BetaBitch followers, are rarely seen without each other and don't get much character development outside of being mean and not as smart as Isabel. Dot gets more focus since she's the only one who knew Isabel before her rise to power as the queen bee.
* {{Tsundere}}: Isabel is a very harsh Type-A, being bitchy and snide with virtually everyone and mostly becoming dere-dere around Smith, though she does show a few soft spots towards Dot and Felix. Deconstructed in that Isabel's Tsundere personality happened because she was bullied so much that she developed her incredibly abrasive outer shell to protect herself and is terrified of being nice to anyone. It's only by hanging out with Smith and his university friends who are above the social darwinism of Isabel's school that allows her to start letting her guard down. Smith even calls her out on how she "blew hot and cold" all the time.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Isabel gushes about the colour of Smith's eyes several times, commenting it was the only reason she let him kiss her when they first met, even though he thought she was someone else at the time.
* WildTeenParty: A few crop up in the book, with Isabel and her friends mostly preferring to try getting into places where students will be. The book opens with them attending one such house party where Isabel meets Smith.
