One thing that I love from reading Morgan Matson's books is that she capable of bringing her reader into the atmosphere that she created. In this book, the summer feels way real for me.
I could see myself I'm with Andie when she walking dogs around the neighborhood, when she was fooling around at the party, or when she and her best friends doing that scavenger hunt.
The story revolves around one summer when Andie got a thrown off from her pre-med summer course and didn't have any backup plan for the summer. She started to look for a summer job, ended with walking dogs and she met this cute guy with difficulties with his dog.
In the first half, I got pretty bored, there wasn't any much story happened and I didn't enjoy to read Andie's attitude. She was so full of herself at the beginning. Gradually I could see she grew up bit by bit by fixing her attitude and her relationship with her father.
At the second half, the pace is picking up. I love seeing her being mature around everyone around her though I'm still seeing her old self here and then. I totally understand about this, you can't change yourself drastically, can you?
All in all, this could've been better if they cut like one-third from the length of this book.
500 something pages for contemporary is kind of too much for me when the story just telling us about what could happen/changes in one summer.
Morgan Matson clearly knew how to wrap a story realistically. It's not a too much dreamy happily ever after but I think it just feels right for everyone.
Rating 3.5/5 stars.
Originally posted on my Goodreads page, July 4 2017
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