Starts out very slow. I almost gave up. It got a little weird but I hung in there and it was worth it. I've been listening to the rest of the series and they are great.

This book is written about a teenaged girl who hates Christianity because they are intolerant and she just hates that. She equally glorifies without much explanation anything unwhite, unChristian and unhetero and (um...a little forumlaic, already) because the race, culture and religion she was born in to is hateful, you know, it just is, everybody knows it, we don't have to discuss it in any detail. I would bet money she hates cheerleaders as well. Just because. You know, like, they're all so.. you know .. makeup and doing boys to be popular, and they, like, hate me, just because, I mean, hate them.. I mean.. I'm mean ...It reads as if the main character wrote the book herself.

Im not sure about these books yet. This one is very slow at first but the ending is great. The narrator isnt very good at all. She is breathy in all her words and characters. But the books themselves are good!

Story seemed to have a little filler in it. Kind of like carrying on too much about something to add length to the story. The story was ok. Im going to listen to book 2 to see if it improves.

I am too old to get into this magical type thinking. YA novels generally stem from the idea that "You see, I wasn't just a dork. I was actually someone special all along. And all those adults really are stupid and I really do know it all." And as I am an adult now I understand the world very differently. I have no interest in going back to a different stage in my life. This book is aimed for the under 18.