3.8/5 
 I wanted to really like this book, but it took me forever to read. 
 My main problem was that I did not enjoy Lennie, I didn't hate her necessarily, but some of her actions made absolutely no sense, and I wanted to slap her many times. 
 My other problems with this book is that the teenagers did not seem like teenagers. They spoke very elegantly and occasionally things like WTF-asarus would randomly pop up, which I can only imagine was to keep the idea that these were teenagers. 
 Some parts seemed very soap-opera-esque, very dramatic and cheesy. However, some parts were beautifully written especially some of the poems. 
 Overall the story was very average, with the poems giving it a .8+ stars. 
 (view spoiler)[The mother secret was a huge disappointment to me. (hide spoiler)] 
 Definitely not a tear-jerker.