Samantha Reed is the daughter of a politician, as well as straight-A student and a neat and orderly person. Her secret? She spends hours staring at the window of her neighbors, the Garretts, who are anything but neat and orderly. When she falls impractically, but totally in love with Jase, one of the Garretts, who her mother has deemed 'troublemakers' her life perfect life begins to spiral out of control. Kurt, her mother's political advisor, seems to be changing her mother into an unrecognizable person, and Nan, her best friend, and her brother are each dealing with struggles on opposite ends of the spectrum. 
 I really liked the premise of this book... 
 As for the actual book, I'm less sure. Samantha as a character felt very bland to me, despite the 'slightly spoiled and pretentious but ultimately sweet' character the back promised. She was generically smart, generically strong, and generically pretty. I felt no emotional connection to her whatsoever, which might have been intention for readers to project themselves onto. If that was the case, it did not work particularly well, as I could see little of myself in her. 
 Jase, as love interests go seemed a little too perfect. In my experience, the standards set by fictional characters are rarely met by actual people, but this was a little extreme. Because he was conveniently everything Samantha wanted/needed in her life, good with children, ambitious, kind, athletic, smart and sympathetic with her even when she made some really awful decisions. As a love interest, I didn't mind him - he and Samantha had pretty good chemistry, but as a person I thought he was only shallowly developed. 
 Nan (the best friend) was okay, I thought her plotline did not receive the closure it needed, but it didn't have a huge impact on the actual novel. That said, Tim (Nan's twin) was my favorite character, no doubts whatsoever. He was flawed, and could be whiny and annoying, but he was also a good person, reacted well to situations and showed the greatest amount of growth in the novel. I found his sarcasm witty, and while he frustrated me a lot, I think he was definitely the most human of the bunch. The Garretts, a bit like Jase, were wonderful, but not overly unique in persona. The mother was pretty well set up, but I felt that her (view spoiler)[ complete change of heart at the end (hide spoiler)] was a little bit forced. There was not a lot of buildup to it, and I would have liked to have seen more of her character development. 
 As story goes, it was a love story first and foremost, which, if that is your genre, is done very well. I got the impression there would be a lot more none-romantic plot from the summary, but make no mistake, it is about two characters falling in love and the resulting complications. I might have enjoyed the book more had I not been looking for the supplementary plot the whole novel. 
 The writing itself was okay, but it was present tense, which was strange, but not bad. It took a bit of getting used to, however. The narrative was mostly pathos based (meaning it centered on character emotions rather than descriptions of objects/people), and if that is the sort of thing one enjoys, it was very well done. 
 All in all, I would not say it was a BAD book. I would, however say, that it is not my kind of book (hence the low rating). I would recommend to people looking for a romance with an endearing, yet over-exaggerated love interest.