I'm not sure if I can ever understand what all the hate is about over Sonny's character... I have a messy childhood and work with homeless youth and let me say... she felt quite believable to me... People who never felt it don't get what desperation, loneliness and feelings of absolute inadequacy to face your reality can make you do, or turn into.

Yes, she makes shittie shittie choices, and lying is bad... I'm not for it for sure, but I can remember fibbing a whole lot when things were too bleak to share, when faking it was really the only way to make it (and I say make it as in keeping on with staying alive part of life... ) and I can't even begin to imagine how I would have felt having to deal with what life gave Sonny... Of course at that point she was completely self centered and a shitty friend... tends to happen when you are in survival mode. It's also really hard too really let people in because then you have to feel everything...

I found some of the critics here to be difficult to read, and not on behalf of the book. I think people should be a bit careful about what they say about the characters sometimes it comes out pretty mean.

Anyway. Liked the book. Like the unsure, good but not too full of HEA ending . Kody Keplinger sure understand fucked up people's nature, for one so young. And a lot of the exchanges between Sonny and Rider made me smile. And I cried at one point. So overall, a good read.