I am really on the fence about this book. There were parts that I thought I'd like and there were parts where I didn't like it. The whole time I read it I felt like I should be loving this story and I just couldn't love it. I don't know if it was the violence, the writing style of the uneducated kid or the fact that the kid just seemed so darn blind to everything that was going on. It just seemed like any kid would have figured it out by the time it really happened. I don't know I'll have to see what I think of the second book.