This was well-paced and the characters felt very realistic and human - flawed but ultimately good people. The writing was fine and I was quite drawn in to the plot. Unfortunately I ultimately found it quite disappointing. It's obvious from the outset that Alex and Molly are going to end up getting together, but half way through I started to think/hope maybe I was wrong. These are two incredibly isolated characters. They both literally have no friends at all and then most of the book is about them becoming friends and what a transformative impact that has on their lives. But then the romance doesn't feel natural to me, like it was just kind of shoehorned in there because that was the original plan and the authors were damned if they weren't going to follow through even if it no longer made sense from the way the characters had been written. Maybe no one else read it like this but both characters were so utterly fixated on sorting out their romantic relationships that I feel it would have been a much better book if the resolution was that the relationship efforts fell through but they didn't mind so much because they got a new best friend out of it all? And what they actually needed all along was to get some bloody friends. 

Also they got together and then it ended super abruptly. I wanted to know what Molly's family thought. I wanted to know if they stayed friends with Cora. I wanted to know if Alex changed major. And what happened with her mum? They set up all of this interesting background and other characters, but then the second they kiss it's like we're done now none of this other stuff matters.