Probably closer to a 2.5 
 Nell has enough to worry about. She's just started high school. She's on the soccer team, even if she's sitting the bench. She's joined the school play in an effort to get her crush to notice her. Her best friend's father is sick. So when Layla, her sister and closest friend, starts pulling away from her, Nell is upset. They were supposed to take high school together by storm after all, even if Layla is older than her. Nell quickly realizes that her sisterly rift may be caused by more than growing up and growing apart. Soon Nell is being forced to grapple with choices that pit what she knows is right with protecting the sister who has always come first. Written as an impassioned plea to Layla, Nell explains herself in the second person. 
 First of all, this is the first time I've not hated second person in a novel. Then again, Reinhardt gives us a very specific person the books is directed at. There is never any confusion that the "you" is supposed to represent the reader. This was a great look at some of the challenges of growing up, the every day decisions combined with big life moments, all further complicated by being wrapped up around people Nell cares about. 
 If I could do away with anything in this novel, it would be the Creed brothers. The Creeds are a pair of ghost brothers, presumably figments of Nell's imagination. One of the Creed brothers died, and the other followed him into death because they couldn't live without each other. I understand that Nell is obsessed with them and she is the narrator, but why? What purpose do they really serve the narrative? If anything, they make the reader question Nell's sanity, but if they are an attempt to create an unreliable narrator they don't necessarily succeed. And I think we need to rely on Nell as a narrator, because she battles a lot of confusion that reads very true. I don't want to see this undermined with invisible ghost boys that are really probably just half-hearted metaphor. There are many moments like this in the novel where things don't seem to totally mesh together, and yet the book is still compelling. Some of this may be attributed to the fact that it's extremely short. 
 Really though, Nell deals with a lot of stuff here that does not feel far fetched. And Reinhardt seems to encapsulate the confusion of such a time with the daily of act of just living it day to day. Also I like that Nell isn't the one at the center of the "issue" of the book. We get to see how such things impact those close to Layla. And through Nell we get to see that sometimes we are forced to grow up and deal with things completely out of our control. Nell's world is upended because of the choices Layla has made, but can Nell put it back together again?