- I picked this book as Carol Snow answered questions for a GR meet and greet session. I got the feeling that Ms. Snow writes much more YA than I normally read. However, I liked her answers concerning flawed characters and decided to give this a shot. I’m not sure what I expected, but it wasn’t what I got. Don’t worry, that’s not a bad thing. Let’s start with what this book isn’t. It isn’t a romance novel. It isn’t women’s fiction. It isn’t YA either. What it is is an amalgamation of these different genres. The characters are mostly two dimensional and nobody is perfect. I love that about the book. You want to hate Hank. Well, maybe he isn’t that bad. As you go down each character, it is pretty much the same story. Here’s a good friend, but she has flaws. Here’s someone else you think is the bad guy, but he turns out to be not that way at all. That is my favorite characteristic of this book. Our heroine, Veronica Czaplicki, certainly makes her fair share of mistakes. And some of those are actually pretty serious.

I didn’t like some of the plot points as I thought they were too far outside the realm of believability. I wasn’t a big fan of Haley being made in the image of several of our teen queens/pop icons. Furthermore I thought we were being beaten with the ‘Veronica’s life is so tough’ thing a few too many times. Otherwise I really enjoyed it. 3.5/5 stars.