User blog comment:RainbowDashLover4Ever/High School Story Book 3/@comment-3452092-20180121032344/@comment-3452092-20180121193310

I suspect the inclusion of Max and Kara in books 1 and 2 was way more memorable to people who already had a history with them.

I did found Zoe boring in addition to annoying, so I can see that. I connected more with Brian's character and saw more redeeming characteristics about him, so maybe that's why I was less bored with him. I found the character less boring and more three dimentional (or maybe 2.5 dimentional, because there was still a little bit about him that was flat) and therefore I found his part of the story less boring. On the other hand, I found Zoe very one note and it was an off key note.

Oddly enough I found Brian more interesting in book 1 than I found Caleb. I think Caleb has really only started to come into his own in the last half of book 2.

Obviously this is my opinion, but I thought Isa/Ashley was interesting when she was the minor antagonist in book 1, but as a main antagonist, I thought they failed with her. There was so much more interesting aspects of her that I think they could have pursued and I'm sorry they didn't. At least we know she's not ever taking back the high school (since you essentially get to pick who the principal of the school is depending on if you pay diamonds for principal Hughs or stick with Mrs. Rivera for DiMaggio Middle School if you don't pay diamonds.