I love Abbott's books Dare Me and The End of Everything. This one had her trademark girls-behaving-badly, and I love how well she writes about girls and their complicated friendships, and especially their dark side. This did not disappoint. The only thing was that the scenes kept cutting away right at a good suspenseful part. I prefer if she would go back to her previous style of more slow-burning psychological suspense. This was fast and alternated between three points of view: Deenie, her brother Eli and their dad, who teaches at their high school.