Okay, so I went into this picturing a more straight adaptation of Winter's Tale, but that's totally on me that it made loose allusions. So if that's what you picked this book up for, it's really not another slew of YA-restructured classics. 
 However, this is still an important book. I won't say it's a particularly fun book, but it also is not nearly as joyless and awful as this genre -I'll elaborate on what genre in a second- can be. The genre I am referring to is the "School year following my chemically altered date rape" YA Genre. You know what I'm talking about. Speak, probably more than one Sarah Dessen novel at this point, a lot of "edgy" teen books that get a lot of attention because it at least acknowledges rape, and the unpunished rapist, and the life of the survivor. However, I did not find a lot of these novels I clicked with, despite being open to really delving into this topic. It is relevant. I've just been turned off by the way it's handled, the constant purity and innocence of the victim pre attack, the angsty tone and the general friendlessness of the MCs. I'm not saying this is not how it happens in real life, but it's only been handled one way in that YA contemporary field. 
 This book is a basic "Fuck You, Sarah Dessen" in that regard. It's builds a steady source of supportive resources. She is raped. She doesn't destroy all of her relationships as she grieves. She gets the abortion. It's not an abortion book. She works on rebuilding her mental health. She doesn't end the book cured. She goes about persecuting the attacker. We don't know if it works. 
 It's not triumphant, it's not inspirational, it just is. It's a quite little book about how you're supposed to treat people in places of trauma, especially in how the people surrounding the survivor can help. So I will say if you're going to read about the school year of a rape victim following her attack, some of those classics of the "genre" have gotten a little dated. This one is probably the one to recommend. 
 So I will say my higher rating of the book is more over what it objectively is over what I thought of it. I liked it. I may never think of these characters of plot again, not that they were bad, but you should read it once.