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This was a pretty good book, with an interesting premise. For the most part, well told, except for a few minimal issues that I had. I enjoyed the aliens and their society, and how things worked with them. I can't say I liked the large jumps in time, but I agree there really wasn't a better way to handle them. It made it hard to keep track of the narrator's age.
My biggest problem had to do with the author's choice of narrators. Look, teenage girls are a pain to write even if you were one in your part. It's totally possible for a man to write one well - I think George RR Martin does a decent job, for instance, with Sansa and Arya - but it's risky. And if you're going to try to do the whole boyfriend/sex mentality, dude, just don't try. Because teenage girls are NOT like teenage boys.
My biggest issue probably came from the age old sci fi trope of how young girls fall all over themselves for older men. I know every guy thinks he's totally cool, but cmon. It's gross and creepy for a 30 year old guy to have sex with a drunk 18yo, even if later she's all, no, I wanted to do it. I won't deny that the same teenager will them feel like she's in real, true love with the guy she lost her virginity to, but that doesn't make it so. I suppose I could deal with the trope if the narrator hadn't actually considered how creepy it was that this old guy was hitting on her - dude, go find a prostitute while on earth, jeez - And then 24 hours later she's peering anxiously for him. hello, idiot, of course he learned your parents name. The dude was in a position of authority and had sex with an 18 yo who was drunk and emotional abt leaving her planet behind. Yeah, I probably wouldn't have gotten over it.
Of course, it turns out that he was her one true love. /eyeroll And of course he wound up loving her, too. And of course the sour old crone blamed the kid and not the adult.
Also, shockingly, men and women just don't think about sex the same. You get some points for communicating the 'sometimes she just wished he'd finish already'. But, seriously, we're supposed to believe he ALWAYS rang her bell? Sorry, guys, that's almost as believable as aliens on Mars.
Everything else was interesting and we'll written.