Morgan Matson's books are always very detailed and really long, but this was really stretching it out a little too much. Still enjoyable enough (Matson is great at summer reads - books *set* in summer, not books you're supposed to read during summer or some such nonsense - much like Sarah Dessen is too), but I'd have preferred it a bit more condensed. It's more than 500 pages. So far, only Stephen King's The Stand has really gotten away with that for me.