I Am Princess X

I wanted really badly to be madly in love with this book. It came so highly recommended to me by a dear friend. It's closer to 3.5.

Some Things that I loved:
Loved the comics– so good also the art work started out ls if they were drawn with chalk and then became more refined, digitally processed to go with the story
Loved details and there were instances of imagery/literary devices (etc) that I highly enjoyed, such as ‘that she'd somehow kick free of the sinking car and clawed her way to the surface through the night-black water, cold as a soda from the fridge, the city lights sparkling above her like stars.'
That in the comic Princess X's parents were alive... At least in the beginning
That there wasn't a romance and the flirting (?) was bearable
I LOVE purple
It did keep me reading and wanting to know what came next, even as I worried that it might be predictable.

Some Things that annoyed me to varying degrees:
They had to look up what Lyukemia was, they're supposed to be about 17 and 18, they should know what bone cancer is, this creates an imbalanced perception of their characters' intelligence and is thus is a weakness of the author's writing, there are other instances of odd knowledge or lack of. I understand that these might be instances of informing the reader, but they feel uneven and unnatural.
The working in of the character Trick was poor. She sees a flyer, sees a potential need that she might have to call him in the future and then immediately has some lame computer issue, like a dead battery that she doesn't even try to do anything about, at all.
There were times where I had to reread passages because it was confusing what space/setting the characters were in, it made me feel like I was watching shakycam footage, which gives me a headache.
May mentions that she is writing a book in the beginning, it is never mentioned again.
May's character contradiction, it seems like she is addicted to soda, enjoys pizza, takes the bus (sometimes needlessly) but is somehow this amazing runner without really even trying.
May doesn't seem to care or fully realize that Trick never told her that he had been in contact with Jack (lie by omission) which seems to conflict with her obsessive nature to find Libby.
Even though May is obsessed with trying to find Libby she can't seem to finish reading Princess X, I understand that this might be a pacing technique that the author is employing, it's just not a believable one. May is convinced that her BEST friend is still alive, finds a unique relic of their shared childhood, and even though it's summer and she has NOTHING to do she can't pull an all nighter reading a webcomic that might lead her to Libby? That makes her a bad friend.