Sutter Keely is Mr. Popular with terrible grades and no real plans for the future, intent on living in the now and drinking as much as possible. A strained relationship with his mother and an even more tenuous relationship with his girlfriend, Cassidy, lead Sutter to drink until he wakes up on a stranger's lawn, woken up by Aimee Finecky – a girl he goes to school with but has never really seen.

Aimee is nothing like Sutter – quiet, shy and socially inept. Sutter takes her under his wing and introduces her to a world of parties and drinking, under the pretence of trying to fix the problems Aimee has with her controlling mother and stepfather while ignoring his own deep rooted problems.

I finished this book in less than a day it was that good! The writing style really fuels the book and using a first person narrative, telling the story from Sutter's point of view, makes the story feel more personal. As a character, I didn't like Sutter – he was unappealing and made choices that frustrated me, however that didn't detract from his narrative or the fact that his story was quite compelling. In fact, because I didn't like him as a character, I think it made the story more compelling.

Aimee is the other main character of the book and one I felt like I could have connected with more if the story had been told from a different viewpoint. Through Sutter's narrative, I felt sympathy for her as a character because of the way her situation is presented and the way her own ambitions are treated by Sutter, but I didn't feel I understood her in the way I did Sutter because of the insight into his own psyche.
The plot of the book feels very slow when reading it but I whizzed through the book because although it feels like nothing is happening, every chapter moves the story along. The ending was fitting for the story as well and one that satisfied me as a reader because it resolved the events of the book in such a way that made me know that the characters and their futures were going to be okay. Overall, I would recommend this to teenagers who want something that reads a little closer to real life than some books but doesn't focus on a cliched romance.

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