Heart-pounding suspense and gut-wrenching twists

Hoooooly cow! This book is full of heart-pounding suspense and gut-wrenching twists that just keep coming. The double narrative style is perfection, the parallel themes of wanting something forbidden unifying what seem like disparate stories. In hindsight, I especially appreciate the fact that Elyse is cast as Juliet in her school's production of Romeo and Juliet. Another character says the play is full of dumb people making dumb decisions, and while I wouldn't say the book's characters are dumb, the author's choice of play is definitely a reflection of the story at large - naiveté and blissful hope incite a string of poor decisions and deceit that inevitably come coming crashing down in the face of reality.