Yes, the girls are fun. I sometimes wonder if we're supposed to ship them. The boys...it'd be less annoying if the academic boy weren't supposed to be annoying because he's smart, and the other boy weren't supposed to be cool and fun because he breaks rules and is rude and makes fun of people and causes trouble.

I've been wondering at the sucks less/mental age thing, too, but I'm afraid to find out.

ETAs for ETA: Amnesia and Forbidden to Love can be done well, but rarely are. In or out of romance novels. Most of those other tropes should die, though. And yet, they somehow irritate me less in romance novels than elsewhere, but I tend to prefer my romance in plots where the romance isn't the main plot.