can't stop reading contemporaries / won't stop reading contemporaries.

this is a pretty good one! it's about this couple of beautiful teens with a ~complicated past~ (facebook relationship status: it's complicated) who witness something terrible and then embark on A Quest to do some random acts of kindness. pretty cool.

the upsides:
- kendall (who i almost just called "auburn" because of how often her hair is described as being auburn WE GET IT SHE'S A REDHEAD) can be kind of cool
- there are fun families in this book (i just love literally any mention of families in contemporaries because it NEVER HAPPENS)
- new york setting!!!
- new year's!!!!!
- multiple perspectives and it Worked For Me

the downsides:
- love triangle (and an especially ????? one)
- the romance was so bleh for me
- when kendall wasn't cool she was a tad manic pixie dream-y
- max (guy love interest) is boring
- both max and kendall's recent pasts (max's semi-catastrophic ex-girlfriend; kendall's study abroad) felt thrown together??
- honestly everything that didn't take place immediately within the narrative of this book (like 5 days) felt nonexistent

bottom line: not amazing, not terrible. i should have read this around new year's rather than the beginning of summer but what, do i plan things now??? i think ahead all of the sudden?? as if.