I was hoping for better from this book. I was looking for an entertaining contemporary that'd be a quick read, even if it was nothing special, but this book wasn't even that. I really disliked Jamie. I'm okay with unlikable characters, but he clearly wasn't intended to be unlikable. His tendencies toward violence were incredibly unsettling, particularly when they were never dealt with, and the way he treated Charlotte as this romanticized ideal was so awful. The manic pixie dream girl trope is alive and well in this book.

I really disliked the way Charlotte's rape was portrayed. It seemed like it had no bearing on either her character or the story, and was never really dealt with in any way despite the fact that adults knew and it only happened a week before the main story started. (And therapy is obviously bad, none of the characters ever deal with their problems in a healthy way, which is never discussed.)

But even so, I was planning to give it three stars just for being entertaining enough. Until the ending. I'm so tired of the women hating women trope, particularly when one of them is a child. Like fine, I'm down if it's complex characters with nuanced situations, but it's just about a guy. It's so tiresome and boring. This book really wasn't worth it.