This was definitely a strange one. There were many things about this that worked for me: a weird blend of reality and fantasy, a stereotypical coming of age road trip, generally funky characters; but at the same time, there were lots of things that bothered me. It took me too long to tell the two female characters apart, and I never cared enough to try to differentiate between the male characters. The event that was alluded to throughout the first part of the book was never fleshed out clearly enough for me to understand exactly why it was so traumatic. 
 Oh well. It only took an hour to read.