I have to admit that I chose this because I've been so fond of Strohmeyer's Bubbles Yablonsky series and I wanted to see how she would do with a teen novel. I have to say, all in all, it's not bad. 
 One of the strongest aspects of the book is that the characters are rather approachable. One of the difficulties with having extremely smart characters that are so aggressive over their education is that it's occasionally hard to make them seem like someone that every reader can associate with- I.E., someone that you can commiserate with even if you aren't as gung-ho studious as Gigi or her friends are. I also liked how cute the book was overall. It's light fare, but it's fun and a quick and easy read. 
 The problem is that at times it's just a little too much like things we've seen before in the genre and some of the actions just seemed like it could've gone in a different direction. When Gigi is accused of cheating and discovers that there's going to be a letter about this in her academic record even after she's been exonerated, her move is to go for student body president. I couldn't help but feel that nowadays something of this nature would've been quickly leaked to the news, with the school's choices (which were poor) up for public scrutiny in the court of public opinion. I was pretty surprised that this stayed as low key as it did in the book, as this is the sort of thing that tends to get rather big- especially since it revolves around two attractive teens and some incredibly clueless teachers. I can understand why Strohmeyer doesn't do this, though. 
 In any case, this was a fun book and would be something that I'd ultimately read as a "cupcake read": it's not particularly filling but it's so cute and sweet that you don't particularly mind that this is all something you've read before. 
 (ARC provided by Amazon Vine)