I spent most of the second half of this book waiting for Bliss to wake up and smell the coffee. Between her need to people please and chronic indecision, she bordered on annoying, but..There was still plenty of reason to feel empathy for her as the issues she had spent all seventeen years of her life a prisoner of, are ones lots of teens and adults face on a daily basis. Fortunately, sufficient situations break down, or come to a head by the end of the book, that she finally reaches out for said cup of coffee. Definitely a book worth adding to library collections where real-life issues and how to get through them, are valued. ( )