The kind of book where you know what's coming from the first page (seriously, the prologue tells of a car crash in which a teen dies and two others are injured) and spend the next 100+ pages hoping it won't really happen. The first half (or so) is about friendship and relationships and family; the second part is grief and loss and still friendship. A reasonably strong story for boys (and I'll be passing it along to the high school librarian, who was recently looking for fiction dealing with the death of a teen boy who wasn't the MC's boyfriend), though the writing is sometimes flat and out-of-touch-seeming. OTOH, a lot of the slang and some of the weird things characters say, the things they find funny, really do ring true to me as someone who grew up on Long Island, so there's that.