1 star.

I wish I quit this book, I only finished it because I committed to it for an English project.

The book follow two girls, Chelsea and Jasmine. Chelsea struggles with her body and feeling beautiful, has a crush on a popular boy, and is an activist. Jasmine is a fat black girl, with a crush on her friend and her father is dying. That is the entirety of their personalities. There was no substance to these characters. After the first two chapters, you know everything about them. They, Chelsea in particular, spend the whole book being hypocritical and making bad decisions.

At the end of the book, despite all of the ill advised decisions, pointless, rude, and unnecessary arguments, everything works out perfectly in a choppy, poorly written resolution. The plot was poorly thought through, with as many holes as a pasta strainer. For example, one of the best friends, after being introduced in the beginning is mentioned twice in the middle. Then nothing from her.

This book is particularly bad because the idea is that the girls are in a progressive school, but their school doesn't listen to women. The entire setting is based on contrary ideas. Furthermore, one would expect that in a progressive school, queer people would have their voices heard and would be acknowledged, if not by the school, then by the main characters. One of the teachers is mentioned to be lesbian in a passing statement, and it is never touched on again.

This book was poorly written and hypocritical. I would not recommend to anyone.