One O’Clock Chop is an easy read and not exactly a thriller but it pinpoints the life, love, and anxiety of teenagers and their summer experiences. This book shows the growing maturity of one boy through hard work fishing clams and his growing love for his cousin. This book shows that love can be both complex and simple if you want it to be. The relatives in this book decided that love was simple—feelings of the heart should be the only thing t hat matters. Though, there is always a more complex, twisted, and impure side to romance that can muddle relationships forever. It only took me a few days to read but I think it was worth it.