I struggled with this book from the beginning - the writing was hard to follow, the identity thing with Halle vs Kels was difficult to understand at first, and Halle's attitude as a whole was fairly off-putting. I understand that the author was trying to make this book about teens being happy about loving teen stuff, but in doing so she alienated a large chunk of her audience.

"Because engaging with adults who think YA is for them? It’s exhausting."

That line is 10% into the book and it immediately made me want to close the book. I skimmed through the rest of it, but this attitude doesn't improve or change and that bothered me. There's an implication there that we as readers are to be pinholed into genres that society deems acceptable for us to read. As an adult who loves YA, I don't believe this is true and I don't believe this is a message that should be passed along to young readers who already feel judged enough. It's this same mentally that says men shouldn't read romance, and women shouldn't read fantasy/sci-fi. I think this mentality that Halle maintains throughout the book was its biggest downfall.

That being said, I loved the book nerdiness of the story - the social media aspect, normalizing book blogging, etc. It's a fun subject, but the book as a whole missed the mark for me.