Review: 4.5 Stars- Great Book for it's Target Audience, Not so Great for Older Folks
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
I struggled to give the right review for this book.  For a YA book, targeted to 16 year olds, this book is amazing. If I had a daughter I would have no qualms about her reading such a quality book.The author is a fantastic writer, very engaging characters, and well structured plot.  Just the right amount of supernatural and the right amount of teenage angst.My hang-up is that as an adult, it tended to be a bit tedious at times with the long interludes with school lunches, classroom antics, and hallway locker talk. But that is because I have been there and done that a long time ago ... and is of no relevance or interest to me. Maybe if I had kids I could put more relevancy to those moments.So I do not want to punish the author or the book for not being quite what I wanted, after-all it was not intended for my age group and it is my problem not the author's.  So in fairness I am giving this 4.5 stars because it deserves it.