I had a number of problems with this book. I liked CB - until the end. I hated the ending. With so many lies and coverups going around, when you finally get what’s supposed to be the “real story”, you’re still waiting for someone to confess that that’s a lie too. (And honestly, it sounds like a lie. Like a conspiracy theory. The fake stories sounded better than the truth.) And somehow a 9 year old is fixing technology and giving relationship advice?

Briddey never really grows a spine, or stops coming up with incredibly implausible theories. I don’t know what CB sees in her. And this book takes a dramatic shift from romantic comedy to... something much more sci-fi adventure based which I absolutely did not see coming. (Maybe I should have.)

I just feel like this book is four different stories and if the author could have just picked one story and written only that one, we’d have a better book. As it is, it is a messy, chaotic whirlwind whose point ends up getting lost in the storm.