Such a great story, and well constructed and written. And even though the main story line addresses the sad reality of heartbreak, I caught myself smiling at several different points in the novel (I mean, who *hasn't* blasted ABBA and danced wildly around the bedroom?).

I've always appreciated Melissa Kantor's writing style - it's engaging and endearingly sarcastic (not the kind of sarcasm that seems to be written just for sarcasm's sake; it could even be called an ironic sarcasm, the kind that points out the obviously funny/incongruent things in life). Perhaps the greatest compliment I could give her style is that it reminds me so much of the style of my all-time favorite YA author, Elizabeth Chandler.

In a genre inundated with paranormal romance and urban fantasy, it's refreshing to see a normal story about a normal girl wrestling with normal teen issues, but told in an abnormal - and I mean that as a compliment - way. No offense to the vampire and werewolf lovers (I certainly read my fair share of those books), but YA literature could use a shot in the arm where contemporary stories like this are concerned.