I'm torn with this one. 
 I actually really liked the beginning. I thought it was a different take since this one was about a very broken boy. He was all sorts of messed up and she was fairly normal. She had some trauma in her past, but we all do, making this a refreshing take. 
 However, the middle got fairly muddled. I figured something was bound to happen with (view spoiler)[Jill (hide spoiler)], I just didn't think it would happen so soon. I thought it dragged and didn't flow with the rest of the book. The whole subplot of the drug issue felt like it wasn't strong enough to be the focal point. So when the big issue ((view spoiler)[his mother's murder (hide spoiler)]) was introduced, I thought that would have been spread out. We went from drugs to that and it just didn't flow together well. 
 The changes at the end, though, were welcome and I liked where we left off. I wish we could have had more interaction with his family, particularly his father, but overall the book was justokay.