I have so many thoughts on this one that it honestly made my brain hurt, but I'll stick with three. 1. This novel is way too long for what it contains, which is a lot of drivel, a lot of teen partying, and a lot more drivel. 2. I'm not sure what Backes was going for with that utterly absurd and useless side story about the gay teacher, but I don't believe she achieved any sort of goal, unless the sole purpose was making the boyfriend and the former best friend as unlikeable as possible, but I feel like she was a) manipulating me into thinking that and b) making them so shallow and flat in the first place that I just didn't care. She should have stuck with the teen drinking. 3. I cannot stress this enough: WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?! If I was in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, my parents would kill me dead, even if I weren't the driver. Seriously, they wouldn't "exile" me to freaking Paris, no matter how much of a "punishment" that was supposed to be. They would not let me out of their sight for months. I would probably be pulled out of my school and told to never associate with my friends again. I refuse to believe that every character's parents were so clueless that this situation could in any way be close to reality. It makes me sick. Ugh. My overall opinion that this is not worth your time.