This book is a strange one in that it really was SO predictable and yet, I didn't much care that it was predictable. It's pretty easy from the beginning to know what happened, to have reached the big answer in the mystery, but it's still fun to watch all of the little details fall into place. 
 This is a Breakfast Club-esque book that really focuses on all of those teen cliches and works them together in a cohesive believable way. Five students from all walks of life find themselves in detention one afternoon for an offense that none of them claims to have actually done. There is the Brain (Bronwyn), the Beauty (Addy), the Criminal (Nate), the Athlete (Cooper), and the Outcast (Simon). But as a twist on the Breakfast Club, this detention ends in the Outcast dying. What follows is a messy and nationally publicized investigation into Simon's death, with the four surviving students all being suspects. 
 Like I said, this is strange. There is so much I shouldn't have liked about this book. Each teen's secret is so obvious, so as to barely be a secret. The outcome of the book is equally obvious. I don't even LIKE the Breakfast Club!! Yet, I was so engaged with this book. I still wanted to see how everything played out, to see the subtleties of what happened. That really shows how developed the characters are and how good the writing is.