I loved this book so much, however there are a few things i had issues with like the fact you can defiantly tell it was written in the 1970's which is not an issue by itself, but i did not "love" the way minorities where spoken about however that is something of the times. i did love the story and the friendships developed within the novel, however they did develop super quickly but that does happen in traumatic situations so that makes it a little more acceptable.