Agatha Paul is a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas doing research for her next piece about weddings. Millie Cousins is a (second-year) senior RA who just wants to graduate, find a job, and buy a house (totally normal for a 24-year old). When Agatha asks Millie to arrange a sign-up sheet in the residence hall for her research project, neither of them realizes the journey they're about to embark upon.

Juggling multiple POVs, Reid provides readers detailed backstories for Agatha, Millie, and, eventually, Kennedy's characters. Money, influence, desire, and loneliness are the main forces propelling this cast forward as we watch them make poor decisions that will continue to stack up and completely bottom out at the climax of the novel. Don't worry, though, there's somehow still a satisfying and realistic ending to these messy stories.

Reid masterfully weaves her characters' storylines together in a way that is unbelievably realistic. For those who have attended a small-town college, you know what it's like to have everyone in your business and for word to get around like wildfire! Reading this was like stepping back in time to my senior year of undergrad, relating to the struggle that was balancing every aspect of life at that time.

This book had me gasping out loud, dropping my jaw, and exclaiming "WHY" over and over again.