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With ninety days between the end of high school and the start of college, Ella challenges her predictable best friend Sophie to do something different every day and document her evolution on social media. Long strings of dialogue with little exposition and skipped days make Sophie's first-person narration feel rushed and disjointed, though each new adventure reads like its own short story.