Overall, I liked this book. I wanted to hate it. I had read reviews from some of my most trusted reviewers that were less than favorable so I was prepared for the worst. But, to my surprise I didn't hate it. Okay, I hated it. 
 There were plenty of cringe worthy moments in there, don't get me wrong. Most of the supporting characters are as flat as the paper they are written on. Even the main characters needed serious work. It felt as if Hodkin has gone and filled out one of those character questionnaires for Mara and Noah and filled them with the most cliches possible. Noah, handsome, smart, romantic, unattainable (except for Mara who he loves instantly, of course) rich, heroic, Brittish, etc etc etc. 
 I actually marked the pages where there were annoying things that I wanted to mention in this review. Now that I've started writing it I've realised that the furthest apart those marks are are 10 pages... *changes star rating*. 
 Some of these are: 
 Noah is rude . 
 Mara is pathetic. 
 Example: "Noah placed his forefinger above my upper lip and his thumb below my bottom lip, and applied the slightest pressure, cutting me off... "Shut up," he said quietly." 
 This quote is in there somewhere: Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it. 
 Come on, this is the 21st Century we're in here. Let's not glorify smoking anymore. 
 There are so many slut references and petty teenage drama that does not happen in real life, ever that I just feel like Hodkin really let down the female gender. The main antagonist is a girl that seemed to torture Mara because the Noah doesn't love her and so everyone continually calls her a slut for it. It just makes no sense. Everyone is awful. 
 Finally, one word, instalove. In this one Hodkin even put it into words. "I've only known him a week", "I only met him two weeks ago...". 
 The positive is that there is a really creepy vibe about the writing for the first 3/4 of the book that I enjoyed. 
 The negative is that the ending was incredibly unsatisfying, as was most of the book. 
 Okay, maybe I didn't actually enjoy it that much. 
 AND one scene is taken directly from a "Text from Last Night" that I read back in 2009 . I mean, literally the exact same thing. Did anyone else notice this? The one where Mara wakes up with animal crackers on her bed and Noah says that she was calling them her pets and wouldn't let him chuck them. I nearly died at how blatant the use of that was. 
 If you want a better version of this book, read The Raven Boys. Gansey is a much better Noah.