Thank to Editors of Yankee Magazine, Rowman & Littlefield, Globequot, and Netgalley for the advanced reader copy of “Yankee's New England Adventures: Over 400 Essential Things to See and Do” for an honest review.

My life has always been this interesting treatise to a love of New England. The only child of my family to be born and still living in Texas, my maternal family has been spread from Michigan through Maine for all of my life, and while the lion share of my life has been spent in Texas, I have been taking trips to New England for Christmas, Fall, Summers off and on since before I can remember (and I continue it currently, with trips to Massachusetts still for family and friends).

As such, it was impossible not to request this guide when I saw it slide across the options for review in upcoming months. It riddled with recommendations for off-the-beaten-path, whole-in-the-wall, long-time-favorites, in all the corners of New England you could wish to delve in to.

The guides is helpfully broken down with each state (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont), and then even further in every section going into Essentials, Spotlights, and Top Events. I will definitely be getting myself a copy of this, half for the love of the area and half for the novelty of probably bothering my family to go say any number of things the next few times I’m up there.