I really, really enjoyed this book, which was a relief because I was starting to worry reading bad books was going to be an unfortunate trend that was going to continue. All the characters felt whole and fully realised and not a single one of them fit into the boxes you wanted to put them into. (Well there is an exception: Sam's parents don't appear much but that didn't feel like a flaw to me. The writer illustrated very clearly why that was!) 
 Watching Sam grieve her own death (...not really a spoiler, it happens in the prologue) was such an interesting way of telling this story and it was done in a way that I found more interesting than The Lovely Bones. This book also lacked the weird ass scene where the lead character takes over someones body to have sex with the boy she liked, which is always a plus. 
 The whole thing unfolded really nicely, the continuous unraveling of what was going on and why it was going on was really very impressive. I will probably pick up some of her other books when I'm done with my "read from my bookshelves, I have so many books and not enough space" phase I'm going through right now. It's a good phase so far, it's going well even though this was the only one of the lot I've liked so far.