The story does a really good job illustrating how much you can change after you lose your innocence. Most of the things in the story you could understand why Eden made that decision. But there is one thing in the story that annoyed me. In her senior year, Eden just started calling her parents by there first names. No explanation was given in the book at all. I feel like that would be an important thing to know about why they drifted apart that much between the gaps of junior and senior. It just felt so random! Also for all you fan fiction readers out there, yes you guys, the beginning of the book felt just like a amazing fan fiction. The way Amber Smith expresses Eden's feelings after she was raped were so descriptive which helped me understand what she was feeling. If your against fan fiction, don't worry, it loses that writing style by the end of freshman year.