While i wasn't expecting to be blown away by this book, i definately wasn't very swayed. I knew picking it up that it would maybe kill an hour or two and that's really all it did. There were some cute moments but mostly i was confused, bored, or quite frankly, annoyed. i was never a fan of the main character and even jackson got irratating by the fact that he is SO FREAKING PERSISTANT. This is another book that treats teen years like the be-all and end-all, that their budding love excuses him not moving on and haunting her. I also found them to be a bit stupid, and while his death is a tragedy, i thought it was a little too cliche. She DARES him to jump off a cliff. Wow. Stupidity on both parts really. Please. All they needed was some common sense. It was a decent read, light and not too boring, even if the song choices are forced and are sort of like watching the writer jump up and down and shriek "see, i know what teenagers listen to! You know this song, don't you? Evanescense? Yeah? I'm cool! Right?" 
 Seventh grade me would have loved this book, but now i'm just annoyed by the idiocy and altogether pathetic death jackson gives off and the emo, woe-is-me vibe. angsty-cutesy-emo with reckless stupidity chaser.