This book was a mess-- not an insightful and beautiful mess like some of Palahniuk's other novels, just a regular mess. In Damned, Madison is a 13 year old girl who finds herself dead and in Hell. She's pretty sure she knows how she got there, but she still has questions, so she and her new friends decide to track down Satan and demand some answers. The premise was interesting enough, but the execution was gimmicky ("Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison" was cute about the first 15 times), and the story jumped around so much that it was difficult to follow. Also, it definitely felt like Palahniuk was picking random disgusting and/or controversial topics out of a hat and incorporating them into the story just for the sake of being disgusting and/or controversial. I usually have a pretty high threshold of tolerance for this sort of thing, but it felt very out of place in the context of this story, which was basically a standard issue YA plotline with added "edgy" elements. It wasn't all bad-- I enjoyed Madison's character development, and the twist at the end was interesting-- but I haven't decided if I'll check out the second book in the series.