Cute and fun, the most impressive thing about this book is Samantha would seem like an unappealing heroine if you described her. She’s self-involved. She makes a lot of bad assumptions. She is really insulting. And yet she’s not unlikable. Perhaps because she’s also wounded and we see her genuine friendships so they balance out a lot of the other stuff.
Which is important because if we’re going to believe the guy falls for her (shocking!) then there has to be something there for him to be attracted to.
Plus a lot of the story is a comedy of errors where the bad decisions Samantha makes are pretty low level in the ‘bad’ department. It makes the story easier to read and more enjoyable when the consequences of her assumptions aren’t really that big of a deal so it’s less annoying that she makes them.
And there’s a decent cast of characters to round out the story and add different angles to a pretty benign and pleasant high school drama.
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