I like Cracked Up to Be. 
 ***** 
 This is probably the first time that I liked a book with a lead character so disagreeable. I thought Cracked Up to Be is a story of a girl so used to perfection that she decided to trash her life just to feel different. I was wrong. So wrong. 
 You wouldn't like Parker. She's rude, arrogant, and downright b*tchy. But me? Surprise, surprise. I like her. Summers wrote Parker's inner conflict without having written the actual words. I just have to read between the lines. And it's there. The guilt, confusion and remorse. 
 Jake is persistent. He faced Parker's verbal assaults with brutal honesty. He's someone who grows on a reader, on me. Jake's crushworthy in the end. and he likes it against the wall. *evil glee* Well, Parker asked it! 
 The truth behind Parker's fall from grace? Not what I had in mind but it became apparent it's going there when I hit the first half. I was not comfortable about it in the sense that I felt it lacking, or forced. Or maybe that's just me. 
 Cracked Up to Be is a good realistic read. Ask for help - that's the bottomline.