imperfect characters throughout make for an interesting read about a blended family with two teenagers who decide to act on their attractions, which leads devastating emotional fallouts for an already delicate situation due to different value systems, parenting styles, and cultural things. i like the central ethical questions of this book, which are about boundaries, differences in parenting and how their affect children, and relationships, but lots of this book was boring or not properly explained to the reader. nathan’s character is probably the worst and i don’t know if this is intentional or not, but it makes you never understand him, which is frustrating in not a productive way.