let me just explain the 3 star. First of all the three star is for the great story writing and it having all the right components making it a story with lots of effort, action, emotion, and the fact that a story can't really be a story without a problem for the main characters. Now to get to why this book was short 2 stars. Number one this has a ton of content😦, like, for what I'd thought was more of a teenager appropriate book or a book that had normal teenager behavior, not at all saying that kids don't face these kinds of things in real life because I know they do, it's just I want to believe that teenagers life's have less of this and that kids don't have such a horrible lifestyle. This has drug content, tons of drinking content, smoking, fighting content, child abuse content and finally sex content. This has gangsterish content such as racing on a track for money, a kidnapping scene. Number 2 I don't like the way the people in this book treat each other And I know this is coming from a Christian perspective, but hear me out, they lie, they cheat, they hurt each other, they have trouble changing lifestyle and there is so much anger in this book, it's like nothing I've ever seen before and not in a good way. And imma stop there. I just have one last thing to say and that is that I wouldn't suggest reading the series because it will have you hooked until you read the next and then the next, and I believe that this book will do more harm then better but I believe that it would help people who read this book to see that you want to avoid all this stuff and make it a point to not make the mistakes the main characters made in this book. That's all and I'm not saying that it's not a good book because it just makes me understand more of what I need to do in the future to live life right and how to make my hopefully future relationship with a guy last forever. I hope this review was insanely helpful. I want to mention that I haven't actually read the last book yet but now I have to because I want to know how it ends, I'll do reviews on all the other books but I will mention before if you are gonna read the series since you're probably gonna be hooked, if anyone thought the first book was heavy, you are gonna be emotional on the second one because it's insane how crazy it gets in the second one. Crazy crazy.