** spoiler alert ** 
 This is definitely one of the best books I've read this year! I loved everything about The Sea of Tranquility! The story, the characters, the writing style... aaargh, this book is so freaking awesome that I will recommend it to EVERYONE. 
 The story starts with Nastya registering for her senior year in a new school. She moved in with her Aunt Margot to start over and with a new identity. In Mill Creek Community High School she's Nastya Kashnikov - a girl who wear slutty clothes, heavy make up, and NEVER talks. On her first day of school she saw the boy with an an "invisible force field". The boy who will later save her from the mean girls, projectile vomiting, hangover, being lost, flat tire, and so on. Josh Bennett is intrigued by the girl who doesn't speak, however, he still prefers to be left alone. He feels like everyone he cares about ends up dying and he doesn't want to care anymore so that no one else will die. Now that his only living relative---his grandfather, is dying, he become an emancipated minor at the age of 17. One night, when Nastya invites herself on his garage and talked to him, he started to care about her and finds himself in a strange companionship with Nastya. 
 I would like to commend Ms. Katja Millay for this brilliant debut novel. Her words...kjsadhgfjhsd, it will get to you, move you, and sometimes will caught you off guard. An example was the wishing scene---it was the one on the cover, the pennies on the well. Anyway, I really thought that chapter will end with me smiling because the scene was really sweet and uplifting, but NOooo, Ms. Millay ended the chapter with this: 
 "I wished that my hand would work again," I tell him when he climbs in after me. It was my first wish and the only one that mattered. 
 "I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it's an impossible wish." He shrugs and turns to me, drowning the smile that cracks me every time. 
 "It's not stupid to want to see her again." 
 "It wasn't so much that I wanted to see her again," he says, looking at me with the depth of more than seventeen years in his eyes. "I wanted her to see you." 
 ...and my heart hurts for them all over again. *sniffs* 
 Now, let's move on to the characters: 
 Nastya's character is full of pain and hatred. Sometimes I want to shake her so that she'll stop pitying herself and hating everyone else. However, there are times that I also find myself wanting to reach out and hug her because her pain is just too much for one soul to bear...she needed someone who will listen without her talking, and I'm glad she found Josh. I also like her brutal honesty. Josh...*sigh* I have no words to tell you how much I love this kid. I have to agree with Nastya, the world should be full of Josh Bennetts. He's broken but still beautiful inside and out. 
 "I love you, Sunshine," I tell her, before I lose my nerve. "And I don't give a shit whether you want me to or not." 
 Reading The Sea of Tranquility is like riding an emotional roller coaster... It will play with your emotions...it'll make you laugh and tear up but still, you'll end up wanting for more. This is definitely a MUST read.