This book was difficult to get through, so dull, irritating and confusing. The "plot twist" was predictable, there was the usual thirteen year old romance, and above all it was boring. The book is told in alternating P.O.V's, Ryan and Eden, telling the story of a friend group - "The Heart Club" - that fell apart the summer they were eleven.

It has some very stupid lines, but a personal favourite -

"Her lips taste like cherryade and sadness."

What does sadness taste like?

EDEN

Eden is one of our main characters, this 13 year old goth who mopes around the place at least until she receives an amazing ✧･ﾟmakeover ✧･ﾟfrom her dead friend Andie.......yep, that happens in this book.

Eden has a big crush on her ex friend Ryan, whom said dead friend also had a crush on, so she feels guilty about it and shit. But whatever, she and Ryan get together because you knew they would, right?

I really hate the message that Eden's goth look isn't her "true self" and Ryan keeps saying that she isn't being herself, and she's hiding behind makeup. Fuck off, Ryan, she can wear what she likes.

RYAN

Ryan was the only boy in the Heart Club, and ofc Andie and Eden both had crushes on him. At Andie's eleventh birthday, he kissed Eden's ear. Weird and random, and then Andie got all jealous and told Eden to go home.

Anyway 13 year old Ryan is now a Badboy™, who smokes and hangs out with a bad crowd and gets in trouble at school, but deep down he is oh so sensitive because he helps an old lady out with her garden.

THE PLOT TWIST

So the supposed plot twist is that Andie is dead. She died in a car crash the summer before they started secondary school, and that's the reason why the friend group drifted apart. This was pretty much immediately obvious, though Cathy tried to turn it into a mystery by talking about how the family moved away.

This plot gives me PLL vibes, ngl.

ANDIE

Andie is just such a bitch. It's pushed like she was the best friend anyone could ever have, but she was honestly kind of manipulative, and completely freaked out about Ryan kissing Eden's ear, to the point where she started screaming that they had ruined her birthday party.

Overdramatic much?

There's this stupid plotline where Eden meets Andie again, and it really confused me because I had (correctly) guessed that Andie was dead. When I finished the book I was again confused whether Andie was supposed to be a figment of Eden's imagination or a full on ghost.

You could believe that she's imaginary because she has aged, but at the same, she can physically interact with the world around her. She helps Eden dye her hair, does her makeup for her, etc. Yet only Eden can see her, and nobody seems to have a problem with random stuff floating around......? She texts Eden, and even writes her a letter.

When she turns up as a ghost or whatever the fuck she's supposed to be, she ridicules the way Eden dresses and says it doesn't suit her, and proceeds to give her a magical mystical makeover to make her pretty. Such a good friend.

THE OTHER FRIENDS

There are two other friends in the Heart Club but they don't even matter, Cathy doesn't care about them because they don't have love interests. One of them is a slightly racist interpretation of a Muslim character, and the other is a girl who moved to France. They don't really have any relevance to the story at all, except for the fact that they all sort of become friends again.

This book was dull and predictable, and I give it -50/5. Don't bother, it's not even fun to laugh at. It reminds me a lot of not just Pretty Little Liars, but also Vicky Angel, a book by Jacqueline Wilson. Take my advice - read Vicky Angel instead.