5 star plot & characters. 1 star prose & editing. 
 My favorites & 5 star book lists are not filled with perfectly edited books, and sometimes when the story is this good with characters that wrap me up this tight I don't even mark down for "bad" writing, but this was just BEYOND. It was worse in the first 1/3 of the book or maybe I just got used to it. 
 That established, I really did love Rule & Shaw. Their story was beautiful with just the perfect amounts of conflict and fire. I could feel their connection and nothing in their story felt like it was just recycled and trite plot. 
 Would I recommend this book? I'm not sure. If you want a great coming of age love story between a very likable but untried girl and bad boy AND you think you'd like to see if you can make it through the (at times terrible, and at it's best passable) writing - then of course. I mean, I am writing this and just now personally confronting that it was A VIRGIN BOOK, because it just wasn't an exaggerated plot point. And for me that's huge. Great story with a capital ton of technical problems. If you can find your way past that I think you'll walk away just feeling fulfilled by these characters and their story.