listen, i’m an adult. i didn’t have the same grad and undergrad experience as everyone else but i did have a pretty normal high school and middle school experience. this book was annoying. i thought we got over this in our teen years! this isn't a knock against taylor’s writing, the writing was good if it frustrated me this much of course. but the story overall frustrated me because it made me angry the same way I feed her to the beast and the beast is me frustrated me. get that black person away from all those toxic white people and get that black person a best friend of color! in both books things got slightly better for the black mc when they had a bestie of color. NOT a coincidence. so negative points for the story but the writing was decent and tolerable dare i even say good.