I'm going to try to keep this one short and sweet. Why? Because #scandal by Sarah Ockler just didn't work for me at all. 
 First, the book read like an episode of Gossip Girl. I hate Gossip Girl, so reading a book that was anything like it was bound to impact my feelings about it. Nevertheless, I kept plowing through and it just never got any better, and pretty much just got worse for me. 
 Can I be the only one who just wasn't able to connect with any of the characters or what is going on in #scandal? I mean the romance was laughable. We never see Cole so how can we know if we like Cole, or if Cole is good enough for Lucy? And still, Lucy's love for Cole seems more like obsession than love anyway! But then maybe I am looking at it from a way too mature standpoint. I mean, you love someone so much you are obsessed with them, but then you spend most of your time ignoring them? That doesn't make sense to me at all. 
 I know we are dealing with a book that is supposed to be about cyber-bullying, but really, it ends up being less about that when you are able to figure out the 'whodunit' part of it in the first quarter or the book. I would have liked the book to focus on less of 'whodunit' and on more of the causes, consequences, prevention, impacts of cyber-bullying. I think #scandal would have been way more effective as a book that way. 
 Bottom line: If you were looking for something thought provoking or insightful, you can skip #scandal by Sarah Ockler.