Book review: Top Ten

BEING a teenager on the cusp of womanhood is not an easy time, especially if you are sensitive, something of a loner and anxiety-challenged.
But things go better if you have a best friend to see you through all sorts of alarming situations. Gabby Hart is lucky in having Ryan McCullough for that best friend.
Gabby is always anxious and the type who would rather do anything than go to a party. Ryan is super popular, a hockey star destined for a sports scholarship, who can get any girl he wants. Strangely, he wants Gabby.
The fact that they are as different as night and day doesn't matter. They just click. They talk about everything under the sun and moon, make top 10 lists about anything and everything. He's at home doing dorky Monopoly nights at her place and she makes the effort to attend his rowdy house parties.
Along the highway of their friendship, however, things change and comes to a head on the night of their high school graduation night.
Can they make a go at being a couple or are they more suitable being just best friends?
This is a book about friendship as much as it is about romance, and it is really quite enlightening. However, I would have enjoyed it more if the story did not jump from one time frame to another. It was rather disconcerting and breaks up the flow of things.
Look past that and Top Ten is a pleasant read.