TW: death, underage drinking and drug use, outing of gay character, homophobic slurs

Personally, I really didn't like this book. Was this because I had the audio book version, or perhaps where I am in my personal journey? I don't know. If you enjoyed it than that's awesome! Here follows my thoughts:

Isaac, the boy who passed away and was so important in his three friends lives, was just so unlikeable. He was so...lacking. His only traits were to drink, do drugs and try to get his friends to join him. What were his hobbies? His family life? His flaws? We don't know. He only was recalled as being... We'll...noy very nice. The only convincing friendship was with Ryan, who he let be himself and confide in him about being gay. But that's where his depth seemed to have ended.

In no way do I mean to imply only 'good' people are grieved for or have friends - we just were never really given, aside from Ryan, a reason why these boys were grieving. They just didn't seem to be friends with this boy who pushed them away from their own choices or in some cases just used them.

It felt the goal of the story was to show the three sidekicks forging their new journey together, but instead it was their very seperate povs that mostly focused on themselves alone or their flashbacks. They only came together in the very end of the book.