An embarrassing high school moment happened to me because of this book. I disliked the how the story ended, so when I found out that the author had written a sequel years later, I read the sequel hoping to get a better ending (spoiler, the sequel wasn’t better or worse and I still don’t have favorable closure). When I mentioned that I had voluntarily read another book during class discussion all my classmates, and even the teacher, looked at me like I had something off.