It was a great message but the main character’s parents were awful. They made her give up anything and everything she wanted just because one of her sisters wanted it and yelled at her for being “difficult” and for her sisters being loud and annoying, and didn’t care about anyone but themselves. They have multiple spare rooms in the house but still make her share one with her sister, who they allow full control over the room to the point of letting said sister blare music for hours at a time and scold the MC for protesting it. It took the main character having a breakdown for them to realize, oh, we can’t get away with pushing our parenting responsibilities onto our designated black sheep. And then at the end of the book they have the nerve to pretend like they’re being good parents! I wanted to push them into a lake. If you want to write distracted parents with too much on their plates (since that’s the only use they held to the overall plot and nothing else would change otherwise), then write that, but, to quote twitch streamer Jerma985, “what does this have to do with anything?!” I’d much rather have a shorter book if it meant cutting out these aggravating people who don’t even serve any real use to the story. If it weren’t for the great message of this book and the actual story which I loved otherwise, this book would have gotten a 0.5 from me.