there's a limit to how much miscommunication i can handle in a book, and this book far surpassed it. larissa is an interesting enough character, and i liked her exploring her sexuality, but the writing style fully leaning into "stereotypical teenage girl headspace" was not my cup of tea at all. then there's the other characters who are all stereotypes as well, the underdeveloped sapphic romance, and the nonsensical character motivations. 

you're telling me that after one summer with a girl, jasmine left her loving mother and her home for the other 3 seasons to move in with a dad she said she doesn't feel cares about her, all because had fallen in love with said girl? not to mention she knew larissa had a super crush on chase, it was discussed, yet once she sees it in person suddenly her whole "i hate pretense lets just be honest with each other" stuff goes out the window and she spends the time causing a giant miscommunication

 this could have been a reflective book on finding one's sense of self in the demanding social scene of high school, and it kind of tried to be, but it came up well short. if it had only been about the summer of two girls rejecting labels, i think i would've liked it, but instead it fell into an unappealing mould.