If you've been here for some time than you know that E. Lockhart's Ruby Oliver series is my favorite. I've read it so many times, and I read it at least once a year. That's why whenever I pick any other E. Lockhart book, I start it with a bias. This time however, that bias didn't matter whatsoever. I couldn't quite get into it. I'm not sure why, either, as the premise seems pretty promising, the writing is good, maybe it's the characters which are well-developed, but maybe not compatible to the plot. I just know that I didn't connect to this book at all.
I'm a bit disappointed. I've started this book so many times in the last year and a half, and every time it didn't catch my attention I wrote it off as reading slump, or lack of focus, even 'not the moment for it'. Now that I actually pushed through it, I'm not impressed, and that's not the way I wanted it to be.