I don't even know why I picked this one up, because contemporary YA is a genre I rarely read. They nearly always have too much sex and language for my taste. This book was totally sweet, though! No trying too hard to shoehorn in Relevant Topics, pretty clean, and a high school protagonist who actually seems like she is in high school. The friendships are so positive it's almost too much (though I certainly had friends like that in high school). The main characters are adorably dorky (love that Max calls Paige "Janie" because she's more of a Jane Bennet than an Elizabeth), they play quiz bowl, for crying out loud, and the parents are decent for once, although the divorced parents dating each other again thing seems almost too much. Did the book need that side plot? Not sure it did. Anyway, this book was a cute, pleasant surprise.