I'm kind of conflicted when it comes to this book. On the one hand, I read it in a few hours and genuinely enjoyed the experience of reading it, but on the other hand after I read it I've started to like it less and less.

I liked the format and found it quite easy to understand (which might just come from the fact that I constantly read social media au's), but both girls' voices were pretty similar and I can definitely understand the confusion over who was who, especially in the e-mails.

While the plot was slow I didn't really mind because I love character-driven books. I'll admit that I found the 'climax' (I guess) kind of confusing and had to re-read it a few times to fully understand what was going on, and I found the conflict kind of over-dramatic but I let it slide because their eighteen year old girls and, coming from a sixteen year old girl, being over-dramatic isn't that uncommon.

My main issue came from the two lead characters, which I feel really bad about saying because it's obvious that Allison and Gaby were putting a lot of themselves into these characters.

Gen was my favourite out of the two. I know she's somewhat stereotypical with the way she spends half the book drinking, doing drugs and having sex with anyone she finds, but I really liked the stuff about her journalism and I thought her exploration of her sexuality was interesting and authentic (I especially liked that she had to search for a label and then settled on a more uncommon one).

Ava is where my main problems lie and (to be honest) is the reason this is a two-star review and not a three-star review. At first I really liked and connected with Ava because I have anxiety and a lot of the things she experienced I really connected with. I didn't even mind her being somewhat ignorant on topics of gender and sexuality because, hey, she's only human. But then she continued to be ignorant even after Gen would explain things to her and tell her that it's not okay to say certain things. The worst part was that whenever Gen would call her out she would just blame her mental illness on her ignorance without ever addressing the issue!

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Also, and I know this is minor, I really hated the way she talked about her second therapist. It seemed to me that the therapist was doing everything she had wanted in the one she was initially given and yet she was still pissed off!!!

Okay, rant over.

Overall I thought it was an enjoyable book with a format I understood and a character I enjoyed, but had a very unlikeable second protagonist and the 'climax' was quite poorly executed.