This is a pretty solid summer romance to recommend to your Dessen fans & those wanting more meat to their love stories. Auden starts to have a new appreciation for her father's callousness as a husband when she visits him & new wife Heidi for the summer. Their new baby Thisbe isn't very happy either - it seems her main function in the book is to act as a barometer for the storyline. Even Auden's mom is not a source of comfort, as she treats the visit as a way to get dirt on Heidi & make fun of her ex's new relationship. Auden is put off by her mom's fling with a nameless grad student, & struggles to find her own way in love when she makes the mistake of fooling around with the first guy she meets on the beach, then falling into a "non-relationship" with his older brother Eli (who is hiding a requisite dark past). Lots of love tangles ensue, of course. To me, Dessen is the sexed-up alter-ego of Joan Bauer and this latest novel does not deviate from that general formula. No huge surprises here.