I'd heard a lot of great things about this book so, even though I'm usually not a big YA person, I wanted to give it a try. 
 It was...okay. For what it is - a classic YA tale, modern day Romeo and Juliet type of thing - it's fine. I didn't really connect with either of the characters, and honestly at times I wanted to smack them. They each seemed pretty self-serving to me, despite their attempts to say "No, look at me, I'm not!" The two most-steadfast and interesting characters, to me, were both secondary and one of them ends up dying. 
 It's a fast, well-paced read and definitely has some clever lines. Just not my cup of tea.