I've only read a few other Sarah Dessen books so I can't speak very much to how this compares to others of hers, but I really liked this one. I think she's so great at making clear how high the stakes can feel for relatively mundane things. I was really turning the pages to see how things would turn out! And all the major characters are so three dimensional--I love how sympathetic Sydney is to her parents, even as her parents are treating her unfairly.

Also like 20% of this book is just loving descriptions of pizza and French fries and garlic knots and I'm so hungryyy