Better Off Friends was in my Top 15 Most Anticipated Contemporaries of 2014. I fell in love with the synopsis and the possibility of a guy and girl being best friends or is the inevitable always going to happen? i.e. them developing feelings for each other. I made sure that this is labeled as YA since I know Elizabeth Eulberg's previous books were mostly middle grade. However, Better Off Friends honestly read as a middle grade book and while I had no major problem with that, I was in the mood for something a bit more mature. Still, Better Off Friends brought a smile to my face because it was cute, fun, and the main protagonists were very adorable. 
 At the end of each chapter, you read a page of a texting/chat (maybe?) conversation between the two main leads, Macallan and Levi. You don't know how they end up but it reads as if they're remembering the occurrences of each chapter and I thought that was a really fun snippet of their future selves to read about. The story spans a very lengthy timeline, from their elementary school years all the way up to their high school years. There is the good and bad in this, the bad being that too long a timeline in such a short book doesn't leave much for delving too much in each situation or revelation. The good is that we get to witness their relationship since they were young little kids to their awkward teenage years. 
 Better Off Friends was cute, adorable at times, and was a very fun read. I definitely recommend it more to younger teens over older ones and it was a good break from the usual dark books I've been reading lately. I also think this would also work for fans of contemporary middle grade books!