Story split up into three parts for respective perspectives.

Acts I and III are pretty bad due to the overarching, glaring qualities of "trash protagonist" qua cheaters and participants in cheating relationships.

Act I follows the twerp whose love for the girl next door (Act III) is succinctly captured by the creepy affection "My love for her is the closest thing I have to religion" yikes.

Act II is actually a touching vignette of the best friend of the love bird from Act I who grapples with the loss of his friend and has to go off to college with his world turned upside down. This friend, Jack Murphy, calls his parents every other day at the recommendation of his brother Charlie who says 'after three days they worry if you're alive.' This is personally funny, and then it becomes really touching and sweet after Autumn (GND) tries to kill herself and then she mentions that Jack texts her every other day or so: to check if she's alive still.

Act III makes me equally unsympathetic for her bereaved single motherhood since she seems delusional and also an equal participant in the infidelity as well as the number one cultivator of Finneas' (Act I) insane affection. She plays dumb that he ever had strong feelings for her, but then went and wrote a whole book about how the boy next door has totally been in love with her female love interest. So she knew, and strung him along, and then gave him a hard time about coming onto her, but also had sex with him immediately. Just like zero judgement (teenagers, ig) being applied intellectually, emotionally, physically. Her chapter has the most heavily tinted rose glasses and is told strictly after the events of Act I.

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