I might have liked this book better if I'd read it instead of listening to the audiobook, but as it is it just fell flat for me. The narrator read all the characters with the same voice and inflection (aside from starting out with a Southern accent that inexplicably disappears halfway through), so that everyone sounded like a sad, whiny teenager all the time. Maybe that's how they are in the book - I don't know, because I couldn't interpret it any other way. 
 Aside from the narration, though, I just...didn't buy it. I won't go into any spoilers, but the motivations of the villain and the lack of set-up there really just didn't work for me. 
 Also what happened to Ella's mother? Is that ever mentioned? Was I just zoning out during that part? I feel like that's an important aspect of the story that gets very little coverage, assuming that I was dozing at that point and it gets any at all. 
 It was just an interesting concept that fell flat for me, alas.