Juvenile

Reading the synopsis i was expecting something very different.
I wrestled myself through the whole because i really wanted to know what the fuss was about. A book getting an almost 4,5 star rating on average usually doesn't dissapoint. This one unfortunately did.

It dragged on for to long, almost 600 pages for a story that could have been told in half of that.
It starts with a tight group of friends enjoying their last summer before college. The dynamics between the boys and the girls in the group were cringy. I get being protective but this was borderline dominating. Arianna and her brother Mason are twins, the whole "little sister" thing put me off. You are the same age!!!
The group is 18 and have their first unsupervised summer in their beach house. Maybe it's me being older but the way they spoke and interacted with eachother didn't resonate with me at all. The namecalling, the drinking, the constant sexual hinting read very juvenile. There's a lot chuckling, stolen glances and drawn eyebrows.

Chase is Arianna's lifelong crush and during that summer they cross a line drawn by others. Chase basically rejects her and refers to their moment as a mistake. So Arianna gets depressed and starts college by spending her free time locked up in her dorm room crying.
Eventually she starts spending time with Noah, they start as friends but gradually the develop into more. Again, these are young people, Arianna being 18 and Noah 21. There's no talk of contraceptives or condoms, they just go for it. And what a surprise, she gets pregnant.
When she finally really closes the book on Chase and accepts what she and Noah have she gets hit by a car and has amnesia. In the hospital she finds out she was pregnant but lost the baby whom she thinks was fathered by Chase.
In comes Chase taking that oppurtunity for a second chance because he finally realized he wants to be with Arianna. Noah being the selfless one gives her the chance to make her own choices and choose who she wants to be with.
A lot of back and forth happens where Arianna gets some scraps of memory back but not enough to know what she and Noah had.
Then Noahs mother dies and he's all alone which makes her feel something and she wants to support Noah.
It's not untill she finds a note in her calender to pick something up and a letter from Noahs mom to her that she finally gets her memory back.
Chase suddenly just excepts her choosing Noah and they live happily ever after.