I enjoyed this read, though I don’t think it captures the college experience as well as it purports to. What I think it does do is speak to anyone who has felt left out and confused, unsure of themselves, or been infatuated with the wrong guy for the wrong reasons while knowing it was wrong, deep down. Natalie has never really been taught how to be herself as she grew up in an overbearing family of older, trouble-making brothers and older parents who don’t really understand her themselves. This isn’t a particularly happy book, but I think that in the end, Natalie makes some decisions that she can live with, and is maybe taking the steps she needs to break away and be her own person.
