REREAD #1 (July 30-31, 2017): 
 Just as amazing as the first time around! For sure, this is my all time favourite book. 
 Updated review is still gonna come!!!! especially after hearing that THERES GONNA BE A SEQUEL!!! :D 
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 FIRST READ: 
 Honestly, I think this one might be my new favourite YA contemporary novel! I still really really really love Eleanor and Park and I place it up pretty high, but there are some things that this one has that I absolutely loved. There were many elements in this that were similar to books I used to pick up in my early teens, and they combined together with many elements that I currently really like seeing in contemporaries right now. I honestly feel like if younger me read this I would still have a fairly similar feeling about it. 
 If I were to be serious about the actual plot of the book, it wasn't anything that special. It was a fairly typical high school romance kind of story, but in my opinion this was a case where it was done really well. 
 Like any other story I really love, the characters are what made this book for me. Paige was a great main character to read about. She's one of those characters that I feel like I could get along with the most if she was a real person, and same with Max. What really stood out to me was all the strong relationships between friends and family in this one. I feel like it's been a while since I've read a book where the main character had such a solid and trustworthy friend group and parents that were fully supportive and just always there. 
 And of course the main romantic relationship was cute to read about. It definitely went a cliche-like route, but there was such strong chemistry between the two that it was just fun to see how they eventually come to be. 
 (view spoiler)[There was something mentioned in the book a couple of times about how people reread books even though they know what happens because they love to live through the journey of seeing how everything happens. This really reflects how I was with this book. It was pretty obvious that Paige was going to end up with Max in the end, but what made this book great was seeing how it ended up that way. (hide spoiler)] 
 This was honestly the perfect thing I needed at the moment, and this is definitely going on the top shelf with all of my top favourites!