I think the problem with this was that it was kind of unnecessary. We already knew who the couple at the end would be, so why was there an entire book that languished with other guys and miscommunication tropes just to come to the conclusion that we knew it would?

If it had come to this in some other, more original manner, then sure, maybe that would've made it a good sequel, but instead it was tons of angst and truthfully bullshit moves to some of the side characters to make these two come back to one another. Mikey was a pretty decent dude who got a really raw deal--multiple times.

Either they should've targeted for a much later time in their lives and not done all this continued high school bullshit, or just left the book alone as it was.