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That's not to say it's especially bad (which to be honest would make it more likely to stick in my mind), just that it's incredibly, staggeringly, nearly unbelievably bland. Between the one-dimensional characters, the plot I seem to have read hundreds of times before, and the generic 'rich people's playground' location of the Hamptons, reading this one just felt like a completely pointless thing to do. I started every chapter wondering if this would be the one where something interesting and worth reading about happened, and was repeatedly disappointed.

That's not to say that every book written needs to aspire to that – it doesn't. Sometimes, a light read can be perfect as well. I'm thinking about [[The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald]], or [[Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley]], amongst dozens of others. But there has to be something there to make it stand out, and this just doesn't have anything. If you want a light teen tale of forbidden love, check out Cecily Von Ziegesar's ''Gossip Girl'' series or [[Flawless: Pretty Little Liars 2 by Sara Shepard]], which may not be without their faults but are at least both written with an engaging enough style that they're ten times better than this is.