Alright,this was... interesting. I liked it but I didn't love it. It was a fun read, I spent all of today listening to it but there's a couple things I didn't like about the story.

We are made to see Wes as this little dude who's driven by misdirected anger throughout the entire book but holy hell was this guy horrible. No matter how many times it's reiterated that he mostly stood by instead of participating with his friends, he was still complicit and it made it hard to feel bad for him at the start. He did eventually grow on me though and even though his redemption arc made little sense I still enjoyed it. I'm still not sure how I feel about Tristan. I liked him as a love interest but oftentimes the things he says and his conversations with Wes were very obviously the author sneaking in life motivations...and I get it but it just set me off a bit lol.

Brad and Tony, Wes's best friends, I didn't get their complete 180 at the end of the book. With the way the author wrote them at the start it's just a tad bit unbelievable that they suddenly became people who talk about their feelings like damn where's the build up???! I'm not even going to get into Wes's relationship with Tad, his mom's fiance.

A lot of the characters just acted out of character for the sake of the story wrapping up in a happy ending and it was frustrating. I was literally screaming at my wall like "now you know damn well he wouldn't say that", it was quite ridiculous.

Ultimately I had fun!!! I haven't had that a lot lately especially since I finished percy jackson.

Shout out to Michael Crouch, his voice really brought the story to life. I couldn't put it down.