I found the beginning of this book dull and pretty overdone. A teenage girl with a traumatic past looking for a good time and then finding out something shocking about herself? Yeah, I've only read that plot line about a thousand times. Plus, I just felt like everything in her book fell a little bit flat. Jaime"s romance wasn't the kind that made your heart flutter, her fear was kind of wooden, and the characters were quirky but not in a good way. They came off weird and bipolar. I don't know if the author, Adele Griffin, wrote it that way on purpose because for the majority of the novel, the narrator was on drugs, or if it was lack of development in her novel. Either way, the novel had so much more potential. Because everything else in the novel was so flat, the twist that she added to the end wasn't as surprising and effective as it could have been. For most of the novel, Jaime abuses drugs. There's also graphic scenes and some underage drinking. I thought the one redeeming point of the novel was the twist that Griffin put in. The plot supposedly follows the plot of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw until the second half of the novel where Griffin adds her own twist. I guess I might have enjoyed the beginning of Tighter more if I had read Henry James's book. Regardless, I really liked Griffin's creativity, and it definitely takes a lot of confidence to write a book like this. I'd recommend it if you typically like horror or if you have read The Turn of the Screw, but if you're looking for a light, summer read, keep searching.