PTSD, crying, sex, high school drama, family drama, insane parents, constant flashbacks, this book is just like a high school soap opera. More of the drama is focused on Sam's sobbing and crying while she had flashbacks to a mystery that's easy to figure out, but you don't officially find out exactly what her mother did until the end of the book. 
 This wasn't nearly as entertaining as the first book. Whenever Sam's psycho mother pulled another stunt, I sat there and though "cuz she's a nutter, duh." I also think that Sam and Mason's relationship should have been started in a later book rather than have them hook up in the first book because now it's all "sex sex sex, I can't get enough of him, gotta screw." It got pretty old.