Dear book, 
 you had the potential to be so much more. 
 The blurb promises star crossed lovers, Fast&Furious style illegal car racing and undercover cops. What's not to like about that? 
 Alas, our Juliet turns out to be a whiny, spoiled rich girl with no backbone, and our Romeo is a stalker who happens to be a tattooed bad boy/badass car racer/poet/honors student/genius/... need I continue? 
 The story starts off when the main character Frankie witnesses her boyfriend getting beaten to death in a parking lot. Unable to cope with the trauma and the loss, she acts out and does reckless things, like driving drunk one time and dropping out of her piano lessons *gasp*. She is kicked out of her posh prep school and sent to a downtown high school, where she gets involved with schoolmates who compete at illegal car races and steal cars. You know, the usual teen pass-times. 
 Soon we are faced with her spoiled, and even brattier friends who all seem to suffer from rich kid issues and Senator daddies who neglect them *sad face*. 
 Not only are her friends awful people who I couldn't begin to care about, they are also give out a ton of idiotic ''well-meaning'' advice and often get her in trouble and in dangerous situations. 
 The other half of her friends are actually pretty decent, although caricatured ''poor kids'' from a bad neighborhood. 
 Absent fathers, domestic violence, criminal activity are of course the necessary staples to make this book feel more authentic and in touch with the realities of the poor (?). 
 Our love interest Marco is a walking, talking cliche - he is a sexy bad boy with a troubled past, who races cars and is also a hidden genius in Chemistry. He can fix (and steal) cars as well as spew out cheesy pick up lines that are meant to be swoon-worthy. 
 There is instalove galore, so readers, ye be warned. 
 The moment when the characters lay their eyes on each other they are in luuurve and I couldn't help but being reminded of Twilight when Marco became so possessive and stalky... and even worse, Frankie seemed to love it. 
 Turns out that Frankie never truly loved her dead boyfriend, because Marco is her One and Only Tru Luv and they are meant to be together forevah. Mind you, they both know that around the 4th time that they saw each other and have barely ever spoken. 
 Regarding the the Who Killed the Boyfriend mystery, it was completely predictable and highly disappointing. Instead of providing mystery, tension and drama, or a whodunit plot, it only served to create more angst for the couple. 
 Why 2 stars if I disliked it so much? 
 To be honest, I don't know. 
 Partly it's because I simply don't care enough to give it a 1 star rating - this is reserved for books that I hate with a passion, and this book I simply don't care about. 
 Another reason is the car racing, I truly enjoyed those scenes. I love driving and I've been interested in cars ever since I was a kid, so I do appreciate that a YA novel aimed mainly at teenage girls features this subject. 
 All in all, this is an instalove heavy, cliched book that is instantly forgettable. 
 Not recommended.