Very often you read quotations from reviews on the back of novels that announce it was “captivating” so I’d like to stay away from that cliché, but I’m not going to. This book was captivating in its prose, in the way it captured a time period and place so vividly and in the portrayal of a teenager and all the angst that brings. It made me yearn for a more simple time for our teens when, if you wanted to communicate with someone you had to pick up a landline phone or talk to them. The very precise dates helped pinpoint a particular moment in history and just really worked. I felt the intensity of teenage emotions really worked and the relationship between mother and daughter was also accurate and not overplayed. As this was the third book in a series, perhaps I needed to read the first two to get a sense of who Nico is as he seemed the only character I didn’t really understand (which would be my main complaint about the book), however, the booked worked on its own without needing to read the previous two. I would definitely see how this is followed up as I am genuinely invested in the characters, but am a little afraid it might break my heart! I’d recommend this to angst-ridden teenagers everywhere: a fine feeling that the way you feel is normal, but importantly that it is ok to do what is right.