Okay, let me explain. 
 I liked this book. I really did, for the most part. I liked the concept; a girl who kills people. I'm all about that. But, this was more than just that. This is a book about rape culture, and what it is. It's about what happens to the families of people who are raped or assaulted. The book does an amazing job explaining what rape culture is. 
 This book has three POVs: Alex, Jack, and Peekay. All students at a high school together and connected in every way. Alex and Peekay work at an animal shelter, Peekay's boyfriend, Adam, has just broken up with her, Adam who is now dating Branley, who sometimes fucks Jack on the side, Jack who falls in love with Alex. Yeah. It's a lot. 
 Alex is the main character. Her sister was raped and killed three years ago, and when the killer walks free, Alex takes care of it herself. Afterwards, she leads the life where she only goes to school, where she gets amazing grades, to home, where her mother can hardly look at her. I enjoyed Alex as a character. She had that feminist touch to her, something I wasn't expecting this book to have. The way that she explained her guilt was interesting and just everything about her. 
 Jack was literally one of the most disgusting characters I've ever had the horror of reading. He's number one at the highschool, great grades, sports star, had slept with pretty much every girl. He was obviously put there to be our "male gaze" characters. He was manipulative, and gross. He treated all the women in the story like trash, and even when he tried to act like a good guy, he was still thinking, "well, I still want to." Like???? THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING. Obviously, we're suppose to realize that this is wrong. What really bugged me about him though was, the way he acted to Alex, the whole, "she's different so she's better, she doesn't wear makeup or dresses, blah blah blah," is so overdone and just annoying. Also, the fact that Alex fell for that, was so unlike her character that we had been shown the whole book. It makes no sense to me that Alex would want to be with someone like that. 
 Peekay (aka Claire) was the only other decent character in the book other than Alex. She's the preacher's daughter and that's where the name Peekay (PK) comes from. I liked her and her story arc. Her character development from someone who slut-shames the girl who's with her ex, to someone who helps this girl in the end, is a good thing to see it YA lit. 
 Branley seems to be written like a simple character. She's always shown thrown around Adam (Peekay's ex) or Jack. Throughout the book, she's slut-shamed by everyone except for Alex, who tells Peekay over and over not to that. There are some pages where we see some light of Branley being more than just some simple, character-there-just-to-stir-the-pot character, but, by the end of the book, she hasn't had any big arc. 
 And here's where it gets messy. This whole story features great characters, who all fit in the story perfectly, for every reason. But, this wouldn't be YA without that token gay character. 
 Yup, I'm not marking this as a spoiler, because in the book, it's also not treated as a spoiler (also, books that use gender/sexuality as a spoiler...gross.) Sara, Peekay's best friend, is gay. She's a lesbian. But, everything about her character, pretty much has to do with that. It's not the worse case of token gays I've seen. 
 Overall, I did enjoy this book. It was a good, quick read that managed to serve a big punch and say something big.