After all, who wants to read something that sounds like your daily routine? Not me. It was full of high school melodrama and a pretty unrealistic storyline, but I loved every minute. That being said, it doesn’t make the big reveal any less explosive.įrom start to finish, I could not put this book down. In fact, you know the big twist all along and it is just a matter of waiting for the characters to figure everything out. While there is a “secret” in this story, it isn’t really a surprise to readers. Her walls seem to be closing in on her, as she is forced to choose between the person she has become and the person she wants to be. Misha has stopped writing to her without explanation and Ryen is feeling lower than she’s ever felt before. In fact, he seems to be on a personal mission to bring her down a few rungs.Īs Ryen’s rivalry with Masen heats up, she is forced to face the person that she’s become. He isn’t afraid of her and he makes it a point to call her out on all of her horrible ways. When Masen Laurent starts attending Ryen’s school, she is immediately caught off-guard by the hot new guy that gives her a taste of her own medicine. The only person she’s ever allowed to glimpse the person that she really wants to be is Misha, the pen-pal that she’s never even met in person. She is a bully, but she doesn’t hate anyone nearly as much as she hates herself. Popular, beautiful and nasty as hell, she is the type of “mean girl” that are the source of high school nightmares. Ryen is the type of girl you love to hate. Unbeknownst to them at the time, that night will change everything. He spots Ryen at a promotional event being held for his band and initiates a conversation.

Misha’s band is close to getting their big break.

Now in high school, things are about to get impossibly complicated.

Over the years, the two have become best friends, even though they’ve never met in person. They’ve been writing to one another ever since. Misha Lare and Ryen Trevarrow have been pen-pals for years, ever since their teachers mistakenly thought they were the same gender in elementary school and assigned them as pen-pals for a class project. I enjoyed every implausible, melodramatic moment! This was one of those over-the-top high school stories that I could not put down.

Misha from punk 57