i thought this book was a lot better than some of the other reviews here, so i came out actually pleasantly surprised. that being said, this book included many elements that i found problematic. 
 - any poc was a villain..... does that not seem like a very big problem? i'm all about diversity, but it sends the completely wrong message when you make all of your poc's be the villains of the story. i'm not sure if this was thrash's intention, but it ended up being so. 
 - horrible portrayal of girls, particularly cheerleaders. throughout the entire book they're just there for hot men to gape at and are plastic, fake, and dumb. 
 - speaking of cheerleaders, literally EVERYTHING is stereotyped in this book. 
 - this book had a central focus on sexual violence, but didn't actually send the message i think it intended for? this book hastily touches it on a way that doesn't really solve the issue or try to address how to stop it? that's not okay? (view spoiler)[ for example, at the end bennie and virginia realize that gottfried is getting raped by zaira.... and the resolution is? she fucking runs away and never comes back. and when they realize gottfried is still fucking on that bridge in a god damn mascot costume, they're simply like "oh"..... um bitch what?? (hide spoiler)] 
 in terms of the actual story, we'll go through some positives first. 
 - this story actually had me shook a little bit in certain parts. (view spoiler)[the first time was when virginia dropped her note, i was genuinely concerned for her. the next was when the min-jun showed up initially at her school, i got a lil spooked (hide spoiler)] 
 - it started off okay before it turned into an offensive shit show 
 but any redeeming quality was completely overshadowed by how offensive and messy the story was. 
 - god benny is SO annoying. he can't stop judging virginia and this doesn't change throughout the entire story, even when they turn "friends" at the end. virginia on the other hand is more tolerable, she's supposed to be "weird" and always wants to be "mysterious" but it ends up feeling like she wants to be mysterious more than she actually is. also..... why didn't we get any more information about the gossip blog she had? it just seems like a complete waste, where we could've seen actual development in virginia. 
 - but instead of focusing on character development, the book is far too busy spending its time hastily closing the story. i'm not kidding when i say, none of the characters get closure. (view spoiler)[i'm not kidding when i say zaire just runs away just so the character couldn't finish this mess. (hide spoiler)] 
 and honestly, even though this had a shitty ending, i don't care enough to read the next book. i'm done with it.