I'm not sure what to say here. I heard so much hype about this book, and was really looking forward to it, as I love a good teen problem novel. And it started out very strong. 
 Somewhere along the way, though, it started to fall apart a little. Either that, or it started to feel contrived. 
 One thing that can really bother me about a book is when pacing is uneven, or the author makes leaps in pacing before I'm ready to buy into it. I think that's really what happened here. More on that in a moment... 
 1. Kendra, the main character, is in therapy dealing with the trauma of repressed memories of sexual abuse. This makes for gritty, emotional subject matter, but it's also entangled with the focus on her sexuality. I felt like the author was loading up on hot-button issues, but I didn't feel like it was necessary in the case of this book. If you want to write GLBT lit, fine, but do it justice. The whole idea that Kendra "loves" Meghan after essentially 2 encounters is a little far-fetched, even for teen lit. I think it would have been possible to write a powerful book without playing that angle. 
 2. One of my pet peeves is the "slightly-too-neat-and-convenient-ending." All loose ends and conflicts are prettily wrapped up and resolved, when we know darn well this situation in real life wouldn't be that tidy. Mom, who was hideously resistant to Kendra's sexuality, and utterly blind to the cutting, suddenly sees the light at the end, goes to therapy, and in a matter of a few months, daughter's girlfriend is pretty much a fixture around the house, likely to move in? Again, I wasn't ready for that leap, but the author seemed to think they'd done enough to get me there. 
 I suppose it wasn't all bad. It did start strong. I was pulled in by the fact that someone was planting messages for Kendra and she was being stalked over time. And the notion that some cutters are taught to cut by abusers was a new one to me, which I do find interesting. But I felt the novel would have been stronger if the focus had been one just a few issues rather than the whole grab bag...