One of my favorite book tropes is friend to romance. Once I figured out while reading that this is what SYBG would become, I was immediately more hooked than I was from the start. Emily has been left a list of 13 tasks that are completely out of her comfort zone. Emily dedicates the summer to completing this list that her best friend, Sloane has left her - who has disappeared and only left her this list. This has Emily frantic and confused by the whole situation. However, SYBG is not about wondering where Sloane could have went, it's about Emily completing the list and how the list changes her life that used to just be her and Sloane. I loved that Emily was discovering herself and the summer she wasn't expecting. Emily meets some great friends, gets a summer job at Paradise Ice Cream and takes risks.

Emily is very awkward and antisocial which was something I could really relate to. Emily was a very relatable and realistic character. However, she did bother me at times by the way she treated Frank. I really enjoyed the friendship Frank and Emily had and their development. I think YA needs more male/female friendships. Frank was by far my favorite character as well as Collins and Dawn.

This is a perfect summer read and it inspired me to make my own summer bucket list!
If you've read Matson's other novels, you'll like to see them pop up throughout the story.