I thought this did a really good job of showing how problems feel at this age. With perspective, some of Autumn's problems in this novel really are big, and some are really trivial, but for her, encountering them all for the first time, it's all just a really intense emotional blender. I thought the angst was really well written, and I was sucked in so much that I was so frustrated along with Autumn at her flailing relationship with her mother, in which she felt completely ignored. There were actually plenty of times when Autumn went along with things without complaint in order to please her mom, where young me would have definitely thrown a last-straw tantrum—despite spending most of the book planning juvenile, parent-trap style pranks, most of the time she seemed really mature! ( )