I'm a bit sad because I hate giving the author of one of my favorite MM books [Muscling Through] a one star rating for her latest effort. This one just didn't work for me. The storyline was mediocre at best, characters totally charmless except for Rose and young Charlie and the rest about it was blah-blah. 
 I thought of actually not finishing this book but I was still hoping that it'll pick up eventually. I was about 67% in the story and decided to just toss my reader and take some aspirin *wink* because it totally gave me a good amount of headache. 
 But as I'm still holding a lil' amount of faith for it to get better, I soldiered on and it resulted to a catastrophic reaction. I just have to sigh real heavy because I feel like I've wasted a good amount of time reading it - it's a good thing I've a great kobo codes when I got it. Ugh. Too bad really, just too bad.