Not usually a fan of YA novels, but every once in awhile one of them surprises me. 
 At a recommendation from a friend I gave this a read and even though the alternate cover for this made me not want to pick it up at all, I liked it more than I thought I would but it had it's share of problems. More even than I'd care to list but... 
 I liked it just enough to give the second novel in the series a read too.