pedestrienne

Vivian trusts her readers. It's refreshing to read a teen novel about a group of friends that doesn't shove their "types" in your face from page 1 and rely on them for characterization. No, she writes characters. This is a nuanced story about how weirdly frustrating friends can be and how stuff from the past can keep messing you up beyond your control (and how it can not seem to matter to anyone else). It also has a very sweet, realistic first crush. I only wish that Katharine would have connected more with me. I thought she was intriguing but I never got to know her as well as I wanted to.