Thank you to Edelweiss for providing me with an eArc of this book. It has not affected my opinions or my review.

Unfortunately, this book is one that fell flat for me. I feel like the storylines of the four girls turned out to be stereotypical and cliche without enough depth to bring them to life, and the story revolved around the messages (too obvious) instead of the characters taking me on a journey to discover them along the way. We had: the overly studious girl who needed to learn to have fun; the rich girl who needed to break away from high society's expectations; the very chatty, dramatic, annoying girl; and a bitter girl who needed to learn how to not make her disability define who she was.

Don't get me wrong. If done well, these can make compelling stories. In general, though? The writing felt shallow, their personalities felt shallow. They didn't seem as intelligent as I thought seniors (and one junior) can be, and the way exclamation points were often used to try to push a point out or make the reader excited didn't help.

I also thought, from the synopsis, that this would be a book without a romance. However, it was still added in, and I didn't enjoy it. All it served to do was take away attention from the four girls together, when I felt a big point of the book was to show their growing relationship. In fact, the girls didn't spend as much time together as I would have liked, instead embarking on their own storylines (with the exception of one pair) but somehow still ending up close.

I do wish I could rate this higher. The message, yeah, is good in theory—but it's not a groundbreaking one, and its execution didn't satisfy me.