I went into this book with fairly high expectation. That was my first mistake. My next mistake was buying the whole trilogy at once. So now I have the next two books sitting on my bookshelf with their pretty covers, and at the moment I am unsure if they will stay unread. 
 So let me just say it this book was bad painfully bad. The strikethroughs became so annoying that I began to skip over them entirely skip over them entirely skip over them entirely, and the constant repetition of words or phrases turns what could have been an interesting and effective literary technique into the second place-getter in the 'most annoying aspects of the book competition!' What took the cake for me though, was the irritatingly constant use of inappropriate and cringe-worthy similes and metaphors. Seriously though, phrases like "I want to bury my tears in a bucket of regret." and "...he's more wrong than an upside down rainbow." had me wanting to throw the book far enough into the future that Juliette could read her own stupidity. 
 But enough about the annoying literary techniques, let's talk about the characters. Juliette has got to be one of the worst developed and dependent characters I've ever read. The only sign of any character development through the novel that I noticed was that the strikethroughs became (thankfully) much less frequent towards the end of book, which I assumed was to suggest that Juliette was becoming more sure of herself. (view spoiler)[Other than that I noticed that Juliette became much more violent towards the end of the book (but I'm not really sure that that counts as development) contradicting her 'I never want to hurt anyone' act when she hopes she's killed Warner and threatens to kill Kenji. And then she goes and tells Winston not to be hypocritical! (hide spoiler)] 
 To counteract any of this development Juliette also seemed to become more reliant on Adam as the story goes on, ignoring anything important like staying alive to ask someone where he is or so they can kiss. Like honey, you don't need to be with him every second of every day! Plus, I think Tahereh Mafi used the constant asking of why he would care about her to supply information about their childhood, but I found Juliette's strange distrust or disbelief to be annoying and seemed to undo any sort of development that had taken place in Juliette's character. I found that Adam's character wasn't much better but that he was maybe a little bit more tolerable because we didn't really get to know him that well other than he was beat up as a kid. 
 I found that the romance between Juliette and Adam was practically nonexistent. There seemed to be no starting point in their relationship and it just jumped straight into them wanting to rip each other's clothes off (like the two hormone driven teens they seemed to be), unless of course you include their 'reliable' chemistry from when they were eight years old and liked to look at each other from afar. 
 So you might be wondering why I gave this book two stars. Probably not. But I'm going to tell you anyway. 
 The plot. I actually did like the plot, it was a unique idea that had the potential to be good. It just wasn't pulled off. It ended up as a tangled mess of purple prose that attempted to give the reader an insight into the mind of someone who should have gone insane but it ended up tending to romanticise the idea in a squabble of nonsense. 
 So overall, no, I did not like the book. But hey, A+ for trying.