If you've come to find the book after watching the show, you'll find more insight and back story, less Steven.. A little less love triangle and a little more over protectiveness from a certain love interest. They also don't have anything about the Deb side of things in the book and the order of some events are different. All in all its very similar but not the same as the show. Still a fairly good book if it's your type of thing, well written with slightly less annoying characters than other young adult novels.