I have so many feelings about this book. I liked the first two in the series. I thought that both of them had their issues, but at the end of the day, I enjoyed them enough to continue the series.

This book was such a disappointment for me. I hated the complete 180 they did on Jeremiah's character. In the first two books he is this thoughtful, caring guy who goes out of his way for his brother when he thinks Conrad is having a crisis. In the second book we see certain events from his point of view and while he has jealousy where his brother is concerned, he genuinely wants him to be happy, even if it means his own unhappiness. Also, he is portrayed as being devoted to Belly.

But this book? This book characterizes Jeremiah as this needy, possessive, thoughtless, immature guy who breaks up with his girlfriend and hooks up with the first chick who looks his way, within days of the breakup. That's just not realistic.

The proposal also made me angry. I get that they are young, but proposing after she finds out you (sort of) cheated on her...that's pretty ballsy. And then to equate what he did with Lacie to Belly and Conrad sleeping under the same roof (not bed or room, but house) is just crazy; almost as crazy as Belly apologizing for the incident.

I liked Conrad a lot better in this book. The first two books made it really difficult to connect with him because he was so shut off from everyone emotionally that we didn't get to see his inner thoughts, motivations, and struggles. Getting a little of his POV really helped flesh him out as a character for me.

I also like Taylor better in this book. She was still a little overbearing and bossy, but it seems like she's calmed down a bit, and her motives aren't all about her now. She still wants to be the center of attention, but she is more thoughtful toward Belly.

I hate, hate, HATE the love triangle in this series. Why is it that one option has to be wonderful and the other is an asshole? In the first two books, Conrad was a jerk and Jeremiah was the good guy. In this last books, they totally flip flop and Jeremiah is this complete ass while Conrad has become a responsible adult. Why can't both of them be decent people? It felt very poorly contrived to me. I actually didn't mind who she ended up with, and the last little chapter actually made me smile, but leading up to it just pissed me off. I honestly felt like the author was trying to manipulate readers into backing her endgame couple, and that is lazy writing, plain and simple.

I also thought Belly became more insufferable in this installment of the series. Her wishy-washy ambivalence was always annoying, as was her tendency to completely ignore reality because she didn't want to deal with the truth of her feelings for these boys. I'm sorry, but she goes from completely distraught, not getting out of bed grief over her boyfriend's infidelity to agree to marry said boyfriend three days later?!?! What the hell?! That just does not track at all for me.

This book drags down the series as a whole for me. The complete character assassination was just aggravating and the 'plot', such as it was, had me rolling my eyes.