wow. Boy is it hard to find good YA lit these days. I blame that Meyer lady and her sorry, benign, sparkly, watered-down excuse for creatures of the night. 
 First thing's first. The book cover is gorgeous. Just, incredible. SO incredible, I'd get a giant blow-up of it and attach it to my bedroom wall if it weren't associated with this insipid waste of paper and ink. There is nothing I hate more than a drab heroine without any real personality traits. Nora could be transposed into too many YA books as the female lead and no one would be the wiser. Is it that authors are writing themselves as the heroine? Because, you know, slightly dull, responsible, respectful, smart, and average is great for the real world. I mean, it's the norm. Nothing we can do about that. But in fiction, the characters have to be special. And what kind of message is it sending when the supernatural male lead is the only thing interesting about our heroine? Yeah, great lessons there.