Andria is struggling to deal with her twin sister's death by overdose, while also counting down the days she can take her driving test which is an even bigger deal than normal due to Andria's epilepsy and doctor's orders she needs to be 6 months seizure free. As pressure piles up and even worse things come to light in connection to Andria's family and Iris's death, a boy from Iris's past comes back into Andria's life and she can't help having feelings for him.

This is a very typical YA book with a lot of angst and drama from boy troubles, over protective parents and what to do after school finishes decisions. But there are also a lot of serious topics covered in this book, some of which really surprised me from sucide, drug use and overdosing as well as sexual assault and child molestation. Plus we see experiences of living with a chroncic and often debilitating illness from Andria as well.

The writing in this was decent though I think there are part of the storylines that I'm just too old to really resonate with now. I felt some of the story was a bit of a shock at how hard it was considering it was a YA - from Iris's drug use being heroin (I don't know but I find a 16-year-old shooting up heroin a bit too hardcore to be believable - and for it not to be noticeable by the parents either), and then the rather shocking turn of events with the stepfather which I really did not see coming. I would have liked to have seen Andria finally go to proper counselling after everything particularly because the only thing we do hear about it is how Andria's mom is against counselling and airing out your issues which is not very healthy.

The romance was fine, and even sweet at times especially with the poetry - but I always find it a bit weird in books when characters go out with their dead sibling's boyfriends/girlfriends. It will never not have a bit of an ick factor to it.