While there were parts of this I liked, overall it wasn't quite my thing. I tend to enjoy stories about female friendships - there's never enough of them - and while the friendship between the three central protagonists here is solid, it doesn't really make up for the fact that I was only interested in one of them. Admittedly, I'm not the target audience - it's been decades since I was a teen, but even then the only character I think I would have warmed to is Shane. Oddly, in a story set at a school she's the only one even remotely concerned with academics, and her storyline here is about coping with her workload in unhealthy ways and learning better. I sympathise with her journalist ambitions and she's the only one of the three who ever goes to the library, apparently, so of course I'm going to like her. Despite her bad decisions she's got a brain in her head and is trying hard to use it. The other two are primarily (and tediously) obsessed with squabbling about boys and status, though this leveled off a bit in the second half as that central relationship resurfaced.