After a cyberbullying incident, Nikki Baylor is expelled from her school, abandoned by her friends, and sentenced to some hours of community service. While fulfilling those hours, Nikki runs into Pax, a wheelchair ruby player, who helps her understand that everybody deserves a second chance.

I like this book. A lot. I really love when authors look at situations from a different perspective than most people do. It would have been really easy to write this book about the girl who was cyberbullied instead of one of the girls who did the cyberbullying. But instead, this book wasn’t about trying to forgive someone else but trying to forgive yourself. It’s refreshing to read about a character who isn’t full of herself, acknowledges her very real problems, and is going through the process of trying to better herself. Nikki isn’t a flawless character, she makes more mistakes as the book goes on, but it’s okay… because it’s real.

I love Pax. It was interesting reading about someone in a wheelchair, since that’s not something I’m super familiar with. I loved his sense of humor and brutal honesty. And I loved his and Nikki’s relationship. He wasn’t a placeholder for her or her last resort since she had been abandoned by everybody else. She liked him. When they first met, there was a little bit of awkwardness in the “don’t say the wrong thing to the boy in the wheelchair” type way. But it didn’t last long, and Nikki never thought Pax was incapable of anything. They had their ups and downs like any relationship, and it was great.