This was a quick read but a good one. It is no spoiler that a girl dies in this book since it is in the title, so you know what you are getting into. The main character, Greg, does a great job of describing the situation and walking you through the story. There is a lot of humor and the illness is really a subplot, hardly taking up much of the story at all so it is lighter than other novels about teenagers dying of cancer. The narrator is all boy and I love teenage boy perspectives, especially ones as authentic as this one where he talks openly about how awkward it is to grow up and navigate high school and life.