Hoover writes beautiful sentences about believable, realistic characters. But this novel has every cliche in the book, well, in this book. There were so many flaws in the characters and decisions of both characters that even though I knew Owen was supposed to be the protagonist, I couldn't bring myself to trust him. Even after finding out his secret (spoiler alert: it's totally innocuous) in the very last pages of the story, I had spent so long being afraid of him that after finding out how he knew Auburn I was just pissed off at him for being a liar for no reason. Would recommend to readers looking for a realistic fiction story that doesn't take place in high school who are highly forgiving of lying male love interests.