Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC!

I love everything to do with theatre! Especially Shakespeare and especially especially his comedies.
So I was really very excited to read this book and dove right in.

Sadly, I have to admit that it fell a bit flat for me. I felt like Alison was a bit one note and I couldn't quite connect with her, mainly because for most of the book I felt like all I knew about her was that she's gay and wants to be valedictorian really badly. She also seemed a bit unremarkable to me and I wasn't quite sure why she was the protagonist.

A lot of the characters were simply a stereotype: Goth girl, who only broods and wears dark make up and is rude and makes art, the stylish gay who is costume designer, the macho who tries to hide the fact that he's actually gay, the cool punk-y girl who is a rebel and of course queer and so on and so on.

The fact that Alison and Charlotte actually form a connection also felt a bit random as I failed to see any chemistry between them. I don't even quite know why Alison developed the crush in the first place except for that Charlotte is pretty and has a tattoo.

I also felt that the storyline was a little predictable and everyone felt much younger than their actual age. But I don't mean to say that I disliked this book because I didn't. It has some flaws that irked me but it was an easy and quick read and I am sure that quite a lot of people will enjoy this. It just wasn't necessarily for me.