A pretty good read, but it took a while for the story to really drag me in. The writing style is strange, with breaks at weird points in the story, and the many flashbacks got a little annoying. I was mainly only reading out of boredom at first, but about halfway through I was hooked. My only wish: less cursing. It was a little much for a YA novel, or maybe I've just been reading pretty clean books. I don't know. But you should probably give it a try, though, because if you don't like it, it ends at a point where you can skip the rest of the series and never have questions about what happens next.