This book is like the guy you go to prom with when the one you wanted to ask didn't: nice, fun to spend time with, charming, but at the end of the day, not a long-term relationship prospect. The writing is above average quality for YA fiction. Character development happens, as do some funny, sad, an...
Clear-eyed and almost deadpan, this tale of how tragedy affects a few teenagers is really involving. The only real problem I had with it is that Carlos and Isabel's alternating chapters spoke in a very similar voice, and I had to depend on context or flip back to the beginning of the chapter to see ...