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This week I have finished reading Just Friends by Haley Pham. Overall, I didn’t really like the book. I did think it was super cute and adorable, but I think that Haley got a book deal because she is big online and that a lot of lot of problems with the book or more so to do with the editors of the book than Haley herself. Good for Haley for writing this book but I think that it wasn’t really flushed out a whole lot in the end. I think that a huge thing about this book that s