My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It's been a year. An entire, full year. Thirteen months--more than a year! So why can't Anna move on after her best friend's brother dies? Why can't she stop writing letters to him in her journal, recording everything as his sister gradually changes into someone Anna's not sure she still knows?
Maybe it's something to do with their secret... that for a month before he died, Matt and Anna were sneaking out of the house every night to silently kiss in the dark. That before that, they'd always been in love, they just didn't know it.
Matt swore he would tell Frankie on their annual trip to California. But then he died. And now Anna is carrying the secret alone. It's going to be more difficult when she ends up going on the trip to Zanzibar Bay with Frankie's family. Harder still when Frankie volunteers a challenge--twenty days, twenty boys. Whoever gets the larger share of the twenty wins.
A novel about love and loss and finally learning to let go.
It's not as... trashy... as I thought it would be. Not at all. They don't even get past eight or so guys; the title challenge is very much so not the largest part of the plot. It's not about a bunch of guys. It's about Anna, Frankie, Matt, and ok, there are a couple other guys too. It's about lies and love, hurt and home. And it's a really, really great book.
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