I honestly don't know what I expected. I mean, just look at the title of this book. This isn't the kind of stuff that I usually read. But, I saw it in the LGBT tag and saw the glowing reviews people gave it and thought it might surprise me. But, no, no it did not. It was pretty much exactly what I expected. 
 Even the first page made me cringe. The quote about wanting to go to a school dance dressed like Marie Antoinette with combat boots on so people can see she's "tough" made me literally cringe so hard I almost died. And, after reading every painful page in this REALLY painful novel, I can say that the main character, Lola, is not tough at all. In fact, she does absolutely nothing to prove she's tough whatsoever. She cries on almost every page and doesn't stand up for her friend AT ALL when her boyfriend insults her. Also, her idolization of Marie Antoinette was really dumb. Marie Antoinette's extravagant dresses and lifestyle is what caused France to go bankrupt. She's not exactly a person to admire. 
 Everyone's "quirks" in this book made me want to throw up. There couldn't be one fucking character that didn't have some kind of special talent/interest that was completely unique. I cannot stress enough how much I hate books that make every single character "quirky" and "unique" because it's so far from real life that it seems childish. Not everyone has an amazingly unique talent or quirk. I understanding making the main character have a special talent, but when every god damn character has a unique interest or talent, it gets really boring and seems too fake to be good. And Jesus, don't even get me started on the names. Cricket? Calliope? Are you fucking kidding me? WHO NAMES THEIR KIDS CRICKET AND CALLIOPE? Honestly, every teen novel has to have these obscure names for mundane settings. If the name is pretty sounding but obscure, then whatever. It's fine. But Cricket? HONESTLY? It's not even a pretty name! Just give him a normal fuckin' name like Jacob or Chris or something. Every time his name was on the page I cringed because it was such a dumb name! I get having strange names in fantasy/alternate universe type books, but this book was literally set in San Francisco. There's no excuse for his name to be Cricket, it's a really stupid name and it doesn't fit in the setting of the story. 
 I felt absolutely nothing towards the characters. They all felt like the same person and their voices were all the exact same. I felt nothing during any of the "romantic" parts, mainly because there was no character development at all and all of the characters were extremely dry. Their actions were predictable, and despite all of their "quirks," none of them felt original at all. 
 The entire story was so fuckin' predictable. Everything was so cliche, right down to her "rockstar boyfriend that her parents hated!" and her romance with Cricket. Some of the things Cricket said during the "romantic" parts made me legitimately feel nauseous. The part where Cricket told the "story of their love" to Lola made me want to puke. And the part where she talked to the moon made me cringe so hard I could barely read it. Nothing felt original at all, the entire book just felt like a gigantic cliche. 
 I know I'm shitting on this book, but it wasn't... unbearable, I guess. I managed to get through to the end (barely). I know this book wasn't for me. It's the kind of novel that I hate, and I guessed I picked it up to see if I could be proven wrong. And I wasn't. I get the lure of this book, and I understand why some people would give it glowing reviews (*cough cough* not really though *cough cough*). 
 But, in the end, it was just not my type of book. There's more that I hated about this book, but I'm not going to go through every painful detail about it. But just know that this book was incredibly painful for me to read. So, so painful.