One of the side characters is gay. Rob’s dad tried to die by suicide prior to the story’s beginning. He now lives in a wheelchair and is unable to speak or move. We were from two different worlds once: popular boy and nerdy girl. We’re still from two different worlds: cop’s daughter and criminal’s son.

I devoured this book in less than 24 hours, which is a pretty rare occurrence for me now that I have both a teenager and a toddler in the house. Falling in love with Rob and Maegan was so easy to do. Brigid Kemmerer is brilliant at creating these scruffy underdog characters with complex layers who are undervalued and underappreciated by the people around them. Kemmerer won me over years ago with her Elemental series and with each new book, regardless of the genre, she continues to wow me. With her fleshed out characters, stand out story lines and heartfelt messages, she is an author I count on to give me a good story that is every bit as irresistible as it is hard to put down once started. Two beautiful souls shunned by popular kids of school, left alone, suffering from family dramas, trying to exist at the high school jungle, surrounded by meanness, unfairness, judgmental perspectives of people which pushes Rob having some dangerous choices to atone his father’s sins to bring the justice in Robin Hood way : Taking from people who have so much and sharing it with the people who need to stay alive! Rob because they became poor as the FBI seized everything to compensate people and because his father tried to kill himself but missed. He is now like a living plant inhabiting their house and forcing Rob and his mom to care for him. Brigid has a way to make us grasp her character’s reality! The opening lands you right in the middle of Rob’s current life:Rob is a social pariah. After his dad was found embezzling money - most of which came from his neighbours savings, he tries to kill himself. Rob and his mum are left dealing with the aftermath, where no one will speak to him at school. Both Rob and Meagan were interesting to read about. They were annoying at times too, but it was bearable. Rob had a lot on his plate, while Meagan really didn’t, so sometimes their narrative arcs felt unbalanced. Meagan was so convinced things were hard for her entire family, and yeah, it’s true, but look at what Rob has to go through? I’m sure he has it way worse. Overall, eh. I had hope that I might be able to like this one after enjoying Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely, but I'm thinking I might sit out any future contemporaries from her. Every else seems to love them....why don't I? I don't know. But I think I'm done.

before i give my constructive criticism, i want to recognize the good things. i liked that the author always recognized the toxic parts of sloane and ethan’s relationship and never sugarcoated it. i also liked that the book was an easy read and a good palate cleanser - especially after a thriller. i also loved loved loved lauren i thought she was such a good friend with so many good qualities. What I like is that by the end of it, these characters aren’t healed. But they are on their way to carving their own path after having been beaten down and harshly and unfairly judged. One mistake can change your whole life, the way you’re viewed, and can influence each new decision you have to make, and we get to see what the aftermath is like for both someone who made a one-time mistake that marred their chances of getting into ANY college when they were a shoe-in before, and someone who didn’t do anything wrong, nor know anything about it, yet pays the steady cost of betrayal every day, both at school and, more devastatingly, in his own home. I did like how much their relationship evolved over the course of the story and how they learned to see one another as they are, not how they imagine each other to be. Two ostracized teens forge a relationship in this dual narrative that delves deeply into family dynamics.When the story opens, Rob and Maegan are both just in survival mode, each trying to lay low and get through the school year drawing as little attention to themselves as possible. When Rob and Maegan get paired up on a project in Calculus class, however, everything changes. PDF / EPUB File Name: 302308_Call_It_What_You_Want_1Ppdf_-_chrish.pdf, 302308_Call_It_What_You_Want_1Ppdf_-_chrish.epub Call It What You Want is a book about Sloane Hart & Ethan Brady, and their journey together navigating their situationship.