I appreciated the clever ways in which Zoboi modernized the original story, and I think the love interests being younger actually helps a lot. It makes their miscommunications and impulsiveness more believable and maybe forgivable. Bushwick felt like a vibrant setting, and I enjoyed the bits of Haitian and Dominican culture. The ending felt like a cop-out to me. I read the afterword, and it gave me a conflicting view on Zoboi's thoughts on gentrification than what I got from reading the book. I wasn't feeling Darius as a love interest.