I listened to this as an audio over 2 nights. The audio was really well done with an excellent narrator for both Clay and Hannah - because the story is half narrated by Hannah as cassette tapes, the audio gives it an authentic real feeling with the pauses, Clay pushing the play button and hannah's voice cutting in etc. The story unfolds with a brutual stark honesty that really rung true for me. I am pretty sure I went to school with a carbon copy of Courtney Crimson and the descriptions of the cruelty and fickleness of high school reminded me of incidents that happened in my own school. I often find myself, as an adult reading YA, that "high school" novels (particularly US ones where the schooling system is slightly different to ours)make me feel disconnected, (read: old) but this one had such an authentic, real, here and now, feel to it that I was completely engrossed. The subject matter is unflinching, but as brutal as each of the 'episodes' is, I felt only more compelled to keep listening, to find out what finally tipped the snowball down the mountain. I'm not going to bother to read the negative reviews here though I am sure there are many given the sensitive nature of the plot. I thought this was an excellent novel, one that I hope my own daughters will read when they are old enough.Must read.