This books was everything I could ever want in a good summer read book. Far from being shallow this book touches on difficult subjects with justice and doesn't skirt around the realities of grief. But it still manages to balance the heaviness of such dark topics with the lighter, though no less smaller, topics of young relationships and adventure and discovery. This book will make you want to pack yourself into a car with a friend or a cute someone and head off down the road on a detour of your own. 
 These characters are so lovable and Amy is achingly real, you'll wish that you could read about these two for the rest of their lives. 
 If you want a book that seems to capture to essence of summer, both the storms and the sun, than this is just the right book to help with that.