This book gave me flashbacks from the movie Heathers and all the "mean girls" I've known. I've often wondered "if I had known then what I know now..." This book explores that a bit.

Here's a quote from the book p 425-426 that is something to think about.

"you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and
that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

And very rarely... you get to the chance to do the right thing."

For Sam, that chance was a long time coming. It also made me think about the people who believe being mean is an act of survival. This book proves that's not always the case.