I'm... I'm not sure what I was expecting.

And this was not good. There wasn't enough wrong with it technically to grade it at one star, and there were parts of it that kept me curious. I mean, I at least liked it enough to read all the way through and it got like 1/3 of an extra star for being set in Florida, which I'm a sucker for. For the most part it was just kind of fluffy and cheesy, with all these weird exterior dark and edgy details.

The narration went from bad to not great and that was at least an improvement after about 20% of the book.

Just about every YA romance trope is hit on here, from the smirking and lopsided grin to the main character who doesn't know just how pretty she is. She melts and sputters and sutters around him and descriptions of the electric shocks she feels through her body when she sees him take about a healthy 50% of the entire book. (I made that number up, but it felt that way...) There were deeply, deeply problematic aspects to the Trent/Kacey relationship and it ALMOST seemed like they were acknowledging that it was awful, weird and gross, but then at the end it was a big, fat LOL. NOPE. TRU LUV.

I picked this book next off of my to-read shelf because it had one of the highest average star ratings.

WHAT.

Does not compute.