All I can say is they tried but I've read both the books it ends with us and it starts with us, which neither was very good or well written but at least they were less cringe than the movie.The casting was bad for lily and Atlas too they're not supposed to be that old or wear 2 pants at the same time lily's outfits were interesting to say the least.The books were mediocre at best the movie even worse. When the writing should've never left wattpad and thus movie shouldn't have made it to the cinema .The constant laughter from Blake in the role to everything Ryle said like she wasn't playing Lily she was playing Blake. No offence to Blake she's great just not in this movie.