Three pages in to this book and I already wanted to give up and bash my head against a wall, and it took everything in me to force myself to endure more of it.
This was an extremely poorly written novel full of clichés and stereotypes, and featured the over-used 'reserved-plain-Jane-who's-actually-sexy-and-everybody-wants'female protagonist, who is of course put in a dorm room with the party girl who's life motto is probably 'YOLO'. Not to mention the 'bad boy' who every girl wants to sleep with and has the secretive past or things he regrets.
Lisanne was incredibly irritating with her brainless yet constant narration (when written in her point of view) and was a stuck-up, elitist snob who seemed to judge everyone the moment she literally laid eyes on them. Not to mention the constant 'I'm not pretty' or 'I'm nothing compared to those girls because they look better than I do' comments. I was about ready to reach inside the book and slap her upside the head.
Now of course these clichés can sometimes work great in a book, but this was definitely not one of those times.
The story was incredibly hard to follow, and I often found myself having to go back and re-read the previous page when I found myself not having a clue as to what the characters were talking about or where they were or why they were somewhere, only to discover that the author hadn't addressed that information.
Also the novel had a clear lack of depth which was clear to see when the author was having Lisanne and Daniel (who was constantly referred to as eyebrow pierced guy even after finding out his name) thrown together any time Lisanne left her dorm room.
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