Review: Teenagers will be teenagers.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
*CONTAINS SPOILERS*This book turned out completely different than I imagined it. I wasn't disappointed, though.I loved the friendship between Ariel and Theo. It was nice that it was developed, and the author didn't simply hurry to make them best friends. I hate when authors make two people close friends overnight. I love Theo's character, and the fact that she's weird, sometimes even a little too weird with her spying habit.I also loved the relationship between Ariel and her parents. I can understand the protectiveness and the need to get away from that. I liked her dad the best. She definitely takes after him.There were quite a few spelling and punctual errors in this book. At first it didn't bother me because I could get over it, but considering how many there were, you would think the author would have noticed them. It makes me think she wrote it and didn't read it or check it for mistakes.Sometimes I liked Henry and Ariel together, but sometimes their friendship/relationship/whatever it is annoyed the hell out of me. At first I liked that it wasn't defined. But Henry is just always going back and forth between wanting her and wanting to stay away that I kept wishing Ariel would just somehow get over him. I'm sure it has to do with his dad, but seriously. Either stay away or find a way to stand up to your dad. HE'S the reason I'm hesitant to read the other books. I just hate back and forthness when it comes to relationships.Ariel asked Henry to go to the orphanage to have a seance. She asked him to bring another person, and he chose a boy named Alex. What happened in the orphanage brought them together kind of as a group.I'm conflicted between thinking they're stupid teenagers or JUST teenagers. I use to break into abandoned places when I was fifteen too, but not to have seances. I also would never spy on my principal, even if I thought he was guilty of something. I definitely wouldn't sneak off into my school's basement, the security office for security tapes, or into the principal's office to look in his desk drawers.Overall, I liked this book and really hope the next one is good, too.