She Drives Me Crazy hits all the important spots regarding teen romances: the couple is cute, there's high levels of drama about simple things, and most characters are completely messed up emotionally.

Scotties's arc is particularly rough to follow. She's still feeling the aftereffects of a toxic relationship and is quite insecure. And makes the most insane decisions. It's, at the same time, easy to sympathise with her and a struggle not to want to throttle her.

While the fake dating came from a very dubious set up (it could almost be read like black-mail) I really liked their dynamic and relationship. Irene is interesting and balances well the task of being both the initially unlikable popular girl and the actually deep overachiever. It's a cliche trope but it works.

The antagonists are probably the weakest point of the story. I kept waiting for some nuanced characterization about why both exes were horrible but nothing really came. It ends up being quite cartoonish. 

(We don't even really know how one of them was a toxic girlfriend. They just throw the word around and say how it made Scottie feel, but we never have a clear action of her being this terrible)

All in all, this book would be great if it was deeper, but this wasn't really what it set itself to be.