This was so cute! Having read all of Matson's previous releases, this one definitely didn't disappoint - I stayed up way too late and read the whole thing in one sitting. 
 I really connected with the main character, Andie, in a lot of ways, and I think many others could probably find something of themselves in here. Her thoughts about wanting to trust people but always feeling let down, and wanting to control the way her life evolves into young adulthood and adulthood really resonated with how I know I was at that age, and with traits that I still see popping up now. These traits made her flawed but in a very real and deeply explored way - she didn't feel like one of those YA characters that had no depth and just made bad decisions/created drama/was a Weird Girl(tm) for no reason. 
 I love how Matson explores friendship and family relationships in her novels, and this included BOTH! Andie's relationship with her father was really beautiful crafted, with some moments that just made me cry, and her friends were the friendship group of dreams, which turned into a really nice discussion of how nothing is perfect without effort and how things staying the same isn't always for the best. I also liked how her own experience contrasted with Clark's, with this becoming his first friend group ever, making it really apparent to the reader just how lucky Andie was instead of Matson placing these friends on a pedestal. This book used the tropes, but it pushed them and tweaked them, and I think the balance worked perfectly. 
 Overall, the book functioned both as a really nice summer romance and on that deeper level, where it got you thinking beyond the tropes and invested in the lives of the characters. Just a great book, really!