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I really hate to give this novel such a low rating. I gave it a 2/5 which, to me, usually means there were some extreme writing/story/characters flaws. This story however, was not glaringly flawed; it was simply uninteresting...so uninteresting that I just couldn't manage to give it any higher of a score.

It's pretty difficult to connect with a main character who you know nothing about. By the end of the book, I still knew nothing about her, and didn't feel like I even had time to enjoy her character, even though this book was almost 400 pages. Because of this, I found myself simply not caring; not about her relationships, her past, her future...the writing was just not compelling enough for me to care.

I was expecting a fun summer romance as the storyline, and while I did get that, it was only for like 50 pages, which was extremely unsatisfying, and the adventure aspect of it was not enough to carry the majority of the novel.

I found myself assigning actors to each of the 4 characters she meets on her travels, as I needed some kind of visualization to keep me from just putting it down; because, again, it was hard to care about any of the people in this story when you're given so little time with each of them.

Also, I have no problem with a story that tries to teach some sort of lesson, but this story in particular was a bit too in my face about it; every single section seemed like it felt the need to wrap things up in a nice quotable line about living in the moment, appreciating what you have etc. I guess I just found it annoying.