Oh my goodness, I adored this book so much! I mean, it doesn’t hurt that very early in the book the main character announced herself as being a Hufflepuff, and as a proud Hufflepuff myself, that immediately made me even more invested in this story.

On the one hand this wasn’t completely original, you know it was the story of the boy who was the best friend having a crush on the main character and she never knew it. But I really liked how the author handled the situation. Because even though there were times that Andrew was maybe about to tell her or almost tell her, the way he handled it was realistic to me. A teen, feeling jealous, and her acting like she wasn’t interested at all, yeah, of course he’d do what he could to save face.

Along with the romance, there was a bit of mean girl business going on with Keely’s friends and the other girls in the school. One that wasn’t necessarily expected, but I kind of had a feeling about early on. There were times I was a little irritated with Keely too though, for being so obtuse about Dean, and his behavior. However, I guess with someone as inexperienced in all the ways that she was, it kind of makes sense. But then it doesn’t make sense, because she hung out with Andrew and his guy friends all the time it sounds like, so she knew how guys were. The things we find out about that situation later in the book do clear up her still being a little clueless though.

Another perfect sweet, escape from the reality of our world today read for me. I was able to read the whole thing in one day. Not that it was hard, I could barely put it down to do the things I needed to do for school. Highly recommended, and while I will definitely be buying a copy for my school library next fall, this is also an ARC I’ll want to keep on my own bookshelf!

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.