Ok, so I kind of hated this. Emma lives in a small religious town and complains about how hypocritical everyone is when they send Bibles to Africa instead of much needed food, while each new chapter opens with a completely ridiculous (and often religiously offensive) "poor old me" rant to God about her so very horrible disastrous life. And she wonders why God won't step in and make it all better. Oh, and her life isn't so horrible, she isn't a starving kid in Africa that is for sure. I have some patience for teen angst, but really this girl was a mess.

I have always hated the Crucible, it made me crazy frustrated as young girls claimed to be victims of witchcraft. This book is a modern day take on it as the whole HS starts claiming to be poisoned by all the outcasts of the school to cover up one popular girl's mistake of almost dying from taking drugs. It was overly in your face "hey look how backward and religious we are, we think terrorists are trying to kill our babies!", but being so over the top, this book lost it's whole message.

Oh and her best friend? What a joke. What a crappy best friend, why would you even feel bad for kissing her boyfriend. She is so lame I wished only bad things for her.

And the end, ugh...the author says she loves writing because she can control what her characters do in the end and that is interesting Eileen Cook because this book HAS NO END! I kept reading so I could see what happened and we never find out! So frustrating.