This book is 480 pages long...which is 180 pages too much.

I love contemporary summer-friendship reads as much as the next person...but not when they're almost 500 pages long ;_; It was just too much and the story could've been wrapped up sooner.

Things I liked:
-FRIENDSHIPS ♥ old, new, it doesn't matter, the friendships were very sweet and realistic



And what I especially liked is how they didn't exclude grandma, she was also their close friend and they did stuff together all the time :)

-family stuff - all of these girls had some family issues and I'm glad it was all discussed in detail
-the setting - a small house in the mountains, lots of animals, woods, clear skies = gorgeous
-it was not predictable AT ALL
-diversity - in characters and in their problems
-all of the characters had to get out of their comfort zone ->character development was ON POINT

Things I didn't like:
-eventually, the girls all started to sound the same...The chapters alternate between them but it seemed like all of them had similar thoughts, similar personalities
-the romance - it was so unnecessary and the only predictable thing about this story. It felt forced and I couldn't care less about them
-the length - I got to about 70% of the book and it seemed the story was coming to an end, lots of things happened and honestly, I got tired of the story, but then I realized I still had 30% left -.- The longest 30% of my life...



-everything got resolved perfectly. I mean, every girl got exactly what she wanted and it was too HEA for me. It was pretty realistic till that point, but then...ugh.

There are more prons than cons, but this was still too long of a book and I'm probably gonna forget most of it by next week.