Reviewed by Nicole Sande, counselor at my school:

This book was a bit dry until the end. The author focused on four teenage girls but the book had several characters. The perspectives kept changing which made it really difficult to follow. Once I finally grasped the four characters, I felt the book ended. There wasn’t much character development. The author also wrote a lot of the quotes in a dialect from the Bahamian culture and some slang was used making it difficult to understand what was being said. I had to reread several pages for a better understanding. I even found myself skipping paragraphs and pages that felt irrelevant just to get to the end. This story could be told in 200 instead of 400 pages. The story itself wasn’t bad. I just felt like you were following some normal teenage drama. It felt like four different stories being forced into one and trying to make a story interesting that really wasn’t. Readers will be drawn to the cover and the Bahamas setting but overall it is a coming-of-age book with many of life’s challenges that some students may connect with but is an additional purchase.