I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

Fifteen year old Ruby Oliver's life implodes when she loses her friends, and is labelled a slut by all those at school. She finds herself with a therapist, who recommends Ruby list all the boys who have been a part of her life, the Boyfriend List, if you will. Soon reaching 15 names, Ruby talks about all the boys, and what is happening with her friendships and the mess that is her life.

I don't understand why people seem to like this book so much? Really, I'm not being dramatic, but all I found here was a whiny, self-obsessed teen, who doesn't care about hurting other people, until it hurts her in return. Yes, I'm reading this now in my twenties, but even if I had read this ten years ago, I still would've hated Ruby, her friends, and the whole story. It's just extremely cliched, and dated for even 2016 (when this edition was released). I will force myself to read book 2 - but only because I have a review copy I need to clear from my NG shelf. I think if I was asked to recommend this book, I would have to refuse and tell people to spend their time on something much better.

This book was such a refreshing read, I’d gone into it thinking that it’d be a sort of young read for me, but I’m glad that this wasn’t the case for me at all. It did take me some time getting used to Ruby and what was going on in her life, but once I got into The Boyfriend List I absolutely adored Ruby. She was such refreshing character, her voice and everything that she was going through just spoke volumes for me. What she had to go through was truly awful, the turn of events and how people turned on her, (I also had an inkling about this one particular character and just wished Ruby had been able to realise what a douche they were earlier on) just made me super mad. But despite the lacklustre events and panic attacks that Ruby still attempted to hold her head up high, it couldn’t have been easy for anyone for things to change so dramatically in a week. I liked how through seeing a therapist Ruby was able to take a step back and truly see what was going on with her life, the self-reflections and realisations could be daunting at first, but I appreciated the person Ruby became by the end of this book. Lockhart bought so much depth to this book with Ruby’s story and gave us such a realistic portrayal of what a teenage life can be like. What I also enjoyed about this book was that despite things hitting the fan with Ruby, Lockhart still managed to bring so much laughter and fun to the story, Ruby was also such a funny character, that you couldn’t but laugh at some of the situations she found herself in. The addition of footnotes I did find confusing at first, but this may have been because I was reading the e-book version, and I had to keep flipping back and forth to find the right footnote reference, but after this initial confusion, I couldn’t get enough of them! The Boyfriend List was a great start to a new series for me, I can’t wait to continue with Ruby’s Journey in the next book!