Avery, Nina and Mel have always been best friends. But everything changes when Avery and Mel start dating the summer before senior year while Nina is away at Stanford for a pre-college program.
The Long Version:
File Under "Dessenesque." As in Sarah and that subgenre of YA Girl Fiction composed of cute middle class girls who delve into issues of adulthood in pleasant prose, that reveal contemplative characters and relatively subtle relationships.
The writing was nice and breezy, making it easy to turn a page and get going. The characters all had some flaws, though they could have benefited with more. There were a number of YA-Boys-Written-By-Adult-Women, very sensitive types that don't necessarily sound like real boys, which comes with the territory of a lot of YA Girl Fiction.
Despite all three girls having their own major sub-plots, what really sells the book is how this surprising romance between two best friends changes them both in different ways. The third subplot involving Nina and her long-distance boyfriend was the least involving, though it served adequately as a counterpoint to her friends' relationship, and how one of them treats the other.
In all, a pleasant, satisfying Coming-Out story of the Dessenesque variety, which isn't a bad thing at all to be.
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