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This is really sweet. Alix and Liana are by far Peters' most compelling characters.

This is taking me back to when I was first getting into YA. I mean, this is kinda like The Fault In Our Stars meets Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, with maybe a little This Is Not a Test in there.

This is kinda nice. It's not that I don't have problems with this book - there's a lot of missed potential in Joss' story, and the technology in the book feels a little dated. But in terms of character development and realism, this is head and shoulders above everything else Peters has done.

My only real problem with this book is that Liana is kinda bland.

Alix is a great character. Finally, Peters has gotten her standard protagonist right - Alix reads her age unlike Antonia, she has personality traits unlike Reagan and Daelyn, and the melodrama in her voice feels warranted, unlike Alyssa's. It's what I've been waiting for in all of Peters' books.

Guys, it's messing with my mind that I'm enjoying this. I genuinely did not expect this to be good.

Just as I was deciding Peters was a terrible author and I was dumb to ever like her, I find a book of hers that's really, really good.

This is alright, as far as Julie Anne Peters novels go. The writing is pretty good, as usual, and this feels a lot more real than most of what she writes.