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Despite a clunky start, this one gets nutty (which is the goal, imho).
We meet Alice, who for no reason I can figure out, starts to tell Jane's story from Jane's POV, and Jane's story is lame. She writes fantasy diary entries, and one of the smexier entries gets photographed and passed around school, making Jane a laughingstock and her boyfriend a hero.
Then Jane decides to fake her own death, and that is where this novel really takes off.
It's the classic: here is the plan and all of the details, and then the plan does not go according to plan because while Jane is playing around with faking a murder, someone really wants her dead. And for the most insane reason ever. Lol.
We have all of the best Pike elements here: raging hormones, Vietnam references, teenage criminal masterminds, and useless adults. OMG, the guidance counselor! Oh, we also have a pet bunny who almost suffers a horrible fate. I would have laid money on the rabbit almost dying having something to do with the evil plan, but I think I was probably overthinking that.