This book shows that there are ways to understand that there are dreams to fulfill. Also, handling secrets, romance, and other things. Jenna is successful and has dyslexia. It doesn't stop her. She wants to paint again. Her father doesn’t want her to when she was a child. Jenna finds love with a new neighbor Charlie. While in art class she became friends with Vanessa. Throughout the book Jenna has to face the past through relationships and other things. It's a well-written read.

i dont care if its too dramatic for me to say so but i loved this book so much!i was drawn into Jenna's life and immediately cared for her and what she went through and was going to go through. Natalie manages to write characters like she knows them and offers them to us to make sure we feel we know them too. you are immersed into their lives and care about them. you are of course also rooting for the romance. and boy was i rooting for this one. yes please now and immediately help these pair be happy please. the only trouble is when romance is done this well is you feel that instant angst over watching them go through to the other side. and absolutely each and every time i fear this will be the romance that ends the romance and doesn't end in happy ever after. hhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
this book is also full of how to grow, friendships and that people might not be what we first think we see of them. and never to think those with the perfect outer have it all together behind closed doors.
it was so refreshing to feel like our pair was so raw and real. they didn't force or rush or even push a need to grow or heal as individuals. it was more they were who they were and they accepted that at every level. and even in doing this it gives the spark to want to think, grow and heal. but not for another. just with another.
loved this book so much. so much!