Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Some swearing is thrown in, an apparent but unconvincing attempt at verisimilitude, but the romance never gets steamy enough to raise eyebrows.Īn unsatisfying romantic road trip that doesn’t go the distance.
Otherwise there’s no way you’re going to be able to have anything real.” Each teen takes turns narrating events, and their accounts wander through time to explain what has led up to the present predicament, including why Jace has suddenly acquired a dog and the peccadilloes of the adults in their lives. Ostensibly, the lesson they both learn is that “you have to put it all out there, you have to be willing to let yourself be vulnerable.
Jace is the least likely-to-be-valedictorian character ever, and Peyton is beyond naïve about money, despite her parents’ continuous arguments on the subject. Seventeen-year-old Peyton really only wants to go as far as North Carolina and live there, but she hasn’t enough money for the trip, much less starting a new life, and Jace is supposedly ducking an opportunity to give the valedictory speech at his graduation in order to accommodate her. Despite their breakup, handsome Jace Renault agrees to take beautiful Peyton Miller back to Connecticut from Florida on a road trip that is not only underfunded, but completely illogical on the parts of both characters.
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