I liked this one. There were some great things: I loved watching the friendships here form. I love how the main characters are a young woman and a young man, but it didn't end with them in love (and it told you up front!). I loved the representation of multiple sexualities. I appreciated Frances's struggle - I mean, who hasn't felt like a different person at home v. school or struggled with figuring out what you want to do with your life! But I didn't connect with the story as much as I thought I would. (Maybe I'm just getting old). I was more interested in the set up of the story. From the blurb, I actually thought the end of the book was going to be them finding out the big secrets, and I’m glad they got to it much earlier! But once it got near the end everything started to feel too convenient and suddenly everyone were instafriends. Then it just got overly dramatic and not realistic and it really killed the story for me. Also it highlighted something that bothered me - how the main character thought she and Aled were so unique and weird for doing things like drawing, listening to podcasts, and wearing colorful clothes. That’s just a thing that people do - it’s not weird! (But on the other hand, everything feels so much more when you’re a teenager and other teenagers can be mean so maybe it’s not a thing to be annoyed about.)