I want to read it again. I also should have read this last summer, before going into freshman year myself. No matter.
I really really liked this book. I loved the characters and the progression of the relationships and the overall plot. I do have minor qualms that deal with my incessant need to have everything resolved as a reader. Like I wanted to know how Cath's story ended, how GTL's story ended, how Cath's fic lit class story developed, etc. However, I still enjoyed the book and wasn't disappointed with the book-- I just wish there were 100 more pages for elaboration. :)
ALSO MAJOR PROPS FOR THE LACK OF "people in relationship fight over something and then don't speak for 100 pages but separately suffer in agony and then make up at the book's close and everything is beautiful" TROPE BECAUSE I HATE THAT. Cath and her ~love interest~ (which was not obvious to me at all at first, which might make me oblivious but I can normally pick these things out) were not at all part of this cliché and I really appreciated their relationship. Even their spats (which do happen and should be included in a book-- I'm not saying that all fights in relationships should be excluded, it's just the predictability that makes me roll my eyes as the reader) were valid and central to their development as characters, or at least about their personalities. Boom.