Oh yeah and Whitney was a complete bitch. Declan was pretty cute, I appreciated how patient he was considering everything. Ugh I'm sorry, Skye is exactly the type of person who gets on my nerves. Our main character, Skylar definitely began to pick herself up near the end, actually showing some compassion for her fellow dormmates in her new dorm who are actually, well what do you know, PRETTY FREAKING AWESOME. Also can we talk about Leo and the reason he broke up with her, like really? REALLY? Seriously, I get that it was her character and she was slowly developing a small sense of humanity but oh my god she was SO self absorbed with being 'popular' having the perfect image because moving into the 'loser dorm' sucks ass because everyone there is OBVIOUSLY a loser and a nerd and disgusting because they're not popular. Ok serious stars were lost because holy shit the main character was SO annoying in the first 150 pages of the book, I almost gave up reading it 3 times. So, this is the story of Skylar learning that varied interests and passions are cool as hell, rather than what she thought "cool" was before she got kicked out on her ass out of everything that was (by more traditional definition), and it comes with a cute ship and a lot of great secondaries and a diverse cast and does not strike my personal boarding school pet peeve of spending like half the book describing that school's traditions.
Like, WTF is that concept, even? I can tell you who's interested in and passionate about stuff I think is fascinating, I guess? How's that? I remember a friend asking me shortly after we'd started at different colleges "So who's cool?" and meaning it in exactly that high school way of hot and popular and influential and whatever, and me thinking that it was such an absurd question to be asking.
I was trying to figure out what it is I liked so much about this book, and I realized it's that this is the kind of character arc I always wished was impressed as a great one IRL. Stepping out of her comfort zone never felt so scary-or necessary. And when it turns out that Skylar’s best friend is the one responsible for having her booted from Lincoln? It’s an all-out war. Worse is that Skylar wasn’t exactly truthful about how she spent summer break in Los Angeles-and her little white lie is causing her once rock-solid romance to crumble fast. Living with a group of strangers everyone thinks is lame is bad enough.
To her dismay, Skylar’s not going to rule senior year because she’s stuck in Abbot House, a tiny dorm known for, well, nothing. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been perfect: A girl forced out of her comfort zone finds that being true to herself is the best way to live her life, in this second novel from the author of For the Record.
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