A sweet story, well-paced and engaging. As for its flaws, the poor girl/rich girl narrative felt stereotyped and inauthentic, and Olivia's brother Liam was far too laid-back, good-natured and mature to accurately represent any teenage boy ever.

I'm going to skip the summary and go straight to my thoughts.

I had a hard time rating this book. On the one hand, it was a light, rather cute, easy read about two girls who unexpectedly fall for one another. A lot of LGBT teen books can be pretty heavy, so it was rather refreshing to read one that wasn't. There weren't any huge scenes in which the main characters have a sexual identity crisis; both Olivia and Zoey just accepted that this is how they felt for one another, and that was fine. And I liked that. Not everything needs to be an angst fest. There are plenty of straight contemporary YA romances where everything is nice, light, and fluffy; why can't LGBT kids have some of those books, too?

On the other hand, though, I found myself wishing that there could be more. The book is short, and there wasn't a ton of emotional depth to any of the main characters. The touted "love triangle" wasn't much of a love triangle. Liam, Olivia's twin brother, seemed pretty damned accepting over the fact that his twin sister was in love with the girl he wanted to be his girlfriend. He didn't have much of a reaction at all. Which...seemed odd, to be honest, considering that he really liked Zoey and had been pursuing her for most of the book. And the ending was just too neatly wrapped up for my tastes.

Still...it wasn't a bad read. If you're looking for something fluffy without much angst or drama, I'd recommend this book. ( )

The book is about three main characters. A twin brother and sister, Liam and Olivia, and their new sorta friend (sorta not friend) Zoey. The book is told from both the girls’ points of view, alternating between the two. Those different points of view made it very, very choppy narrative wise.

All three characters are seniors in high school who aren’t quite sure who they are yet. Olivia, a gymnast who’s constantly striving for her absentee parents approval. Liam, who’s turned into a different person according to his sister. And Zoey, who’s on scholarship at the swanky private school that Olivia attends, and working her butt off to help her mother and little sister get out of the neighborhood where they live.

I was surprised by how much Zoey and Olivia had known each other before the story, how much of a history they had, but I also thought that that was one of the things that the author did pretty well.

On the other hand some of the dialogue made it very hard to tell who was speaking on a page. A lot of the characters speech patterns also sounded a lot alike and that didn’t help differentiate them. More than once I had to go back and read a passage more than once to get who was saying what so that I could understand the scene.

In general there seemed to be something off about the whole novel. I know, I know, that’s entirely vague and not helpful, but I can’t pinpoint what’s off, it just felt like something was. I do have to say that the --offness-- got a little better as the novel went on.

It was an interesting idea for a plot and a quick read, just not an amazing novel.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Flux. ( )