Representation is good, don't get me wrong! But this seemed too short to really hit home. The pacing was weird because it WAS so short; friendships grew and disintegrated over a chapter or two, not giving us enough time to get much of a sense of them. Yes, white-girl middle-America Me did NOT understand a lot of the slang and it felt really fake and try-hard. Wtf is "S.tuck o.n St.upid"??? The dad was a piece of shit and I can't get why the level-headed mom stayed with him. So many problems could've been averted if the dad wasn't around to make it seem like being a "tough guy" is a good thing. Seriously, he keeps getting sent to jail (and walked out on his first family?!) and yet is still Bryan's role model? I KNOWWWWW that really happens but I don't know WHYYYYYY and this book didn't clarify anything for me.