Review on Tea and Tomes 
 Lola lives in San Francisco with her two dads. Her older boyfriend Max is in a band. She's planning an awesome Marie Antoinette dress for the winter formal, and she loves her part-time job at the movie theatre. Everything is going great. And then the Bells, including twins Calliope and Cricket, move back in across the street. Before the Bells moved away there had been a falling out between Lola and Cricket, and Lola's not sure she can stand seeing him again. Even if he does wear really nice pants. 
 I had many of the same problems with Lola as I did with Anna. Namely, the cheating thing. It may have been worse here because we met the boyfriend, and we also saw all the emotional infidelity and little flirtations. Everything was compounded by the fact it was Lola I was frustrated with so it made it harder. I was annoyed with Lola as she blatantly lied to the people in her life, but still maintained she was a good daughter. Except, she blatantly lies to her fathers all the time in the book. And then when she realized she'd been kind of a jerk, she did the pity party where she claimed, "I am the worst person ever" as people insisted that she wasn't. They did not argue she'd been kind of a jerk. I was constantly frustrated by all of this in the narrative, even as I recognized that there was truth in it. 
 I liked that Perkins tried to layer Max so he wasn't obviously a bad guy, that it was lots of little things that added up. As a 20-something I can say that I find the idea of dating a teenager problematic. I'm probably way too straight laced, but that a 20-something dates a teenager and occasionally smokes pot around her makes it even worse. There's all kinds of little red blinking red lights with Max. I would have loved to see the nuance of this pushed even further. 
 I also appreciated the way that the romance was handled at the end of the book, with Lola taking time to make sure she's in the right place before continuing on. I was sad that we didn't get to see Lola's earning back the trust of people in her lives through to the end. I found that just as important as the romance side of things. 
 Throughout all of this, Anna and St. Claire can be found in the background being cute and whatnot. It was fun to see them, and I liked the way the books fit together. At the same time, it stunk to see them and for them to be less developed versions of themselves, as it was another characters story. Still, I was happy to see this standard romance series device used expertly here.