Okay, so when you're an adolescent, every issue feels monumental and feelings are overwhelming. That's basically the thesis and the point of this novel, so it makes sense that it would highlight it so much. And the changing nature of the previously all-consuming, codependent relationship between Jillian and Henry is in fact a big deal. But most of the other issues in this novel don't make sense in an actual reality—for example everything around education and Jillian and Henry's plans and preparations for their educational future (from scholarships, college choice and applications, down to what classes they're currently taking in school and haven't taken in the past) kind of indicate that two excellent students have somehow gone through most of high school without ever speaking to a guidance counselor, or teacher, or in fact any adult. Beyond problems of like, being distracted by how fantastical these situations and problems are, I also think the narrative suffers from containing only Jillian's perspective. Both Jillian and Henry are going through some massive upheaval in how they were expecting their lives to play out, their situations affect and are massively important to one another other, and Henry's experiences are relayed belatedly and secondhand, while his perspective is completely missing from the novel. It was just missing the target, for me. ( )