The main character like in the authors first book,"Prep", is a self-involved, miserable, jealous, personification of every negative stereotype that men say about women. This book sends an awful message to women. You are not incomplete without men. There is no perfect man and you do not have to pretend to be something you are not to get one and keep one. The only character in the book that likes herself and has any fun is painted throughout the novel to be an awful, selfish person. I will not read anything Curtis writes again. The characters in her books seem to push the idea that because you are "plain" looking and/or an outsider, it makes you smarter, a better quality person and more desrving of success and happiness then someone who may be pretty or outgoing.