What I Liked:
1. The McGowan Family - in general the McGowan family seemed really nice and supportive of one another. I love that they took Megan in and tried hard to make her feel at home.

2. Megan playing soccer - I liked that there was a big part of the story that had nothing to do with the boys and was just about Megan. Her playing soccer, making her own friends, and finding her place through the soccer team was interesting.

What I Didn’t Like:
1. Love triangle-ish? - even though Evan has a girlfriend, you can tell that he’s at least attracted to Megan. I feel like he caused his own problems by being all hot and cold with Megan and Hailey. If he didn’t, Hailey wouldn’t have caused all the trouble she caused. And then Megan flip flopping back and forth between Evan and Finn was annoying.

2. Megan’s Character Development - she started off saying she was shy and never stood up for herself and as soon as she moves in with the McGowan family, she’s standing up for herself and being direct/confronting everyone pretty much immediately, which makes it hard to believe.

3. Megan’s interactions with the rest of the family - I feel like all interactions Megan had with the McGowan family felt forced/fake. She was like immediately perfect with Miller after googling Asperger’s/autism, which is not how it works. She covers for Doug and prevents him from getting suspended from school and then he doesn’t even thank her and just moved on.

4. Doug - I really didn’t like him. He slept with Evan’s girlfriend which is messed up. And his fake wannabe gangster accent is annoying.

5. The pacing of the story - the part that’s the most insane to me is that all of this happens within the first line month or so that Megan is there. Maybe less? And to me that’s wild. This would have felt more realistic if this took place over the span of the first semester or something. But the fact that all of this was in the first few weeks of school was just too much

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