Wow. I'm in love. Drifting through the surface of a smooth blue pond, I'm in love. I'm in love... with Penn. I'm in love with Penn, I'm in love with Ella, and I'm in love with Kate Jarvik Birch. This book was wonderful. Wow. Just wow. I loved this book. The second romance book I've ever loved (the first was Missing Variables) and this book has transformed me from my usual blubbering talkative screaming fangirl to a girl who's in love, and very, very dangerously lost. It's just live I've become a small kid... snap out of it, Saral. Kate! What're you doing to me?? Why aren't my thoughts screaming to burst out!? 
 Okay. That's more me. Better. The characters of this book were well developed and I really liked them, though for some reason I can't picture them very well- Ella--she's blurred, and the father guy--the congressman ((Why do I feel as if I don't know his name?)) is a fat person somehow, who is very weird... and Ruby is a bright young girl, and Mrs Harper is a woman wearing a chicken dress and going squawk (?) and the mother is an awesome regal woman and Claire is also regal and dark blonde (?) but... yeah. I think I have gone crazy. For sure--I mean I am crazy, no doubt ((A chicken dress?)) but I'm wandering off topic. The plot was smooth, I could totally see how each event led up to the next and I absolutely loved it. The narration was smooth--I could picture it--especially Penn-- but I'm again wandering... but bleh. Just bleh. I don't know what to say. 
 All I know is that this was a good read, and I hated the spoiler event in the ending--he just had to go get caught-- and that I am eager for more. I absolutely loved Ella--isn't it disturbing we never got to know her real name?--and Penn just made me swoon and die--especially the excerpts in the end--and the twist in the mother's character was just so awesome--and at least I am my usual old self again and not a kid whose seen the world for the first time, but yeah. I'm good. Minus one star for, uh... my not swooning and screaming and fangirling right now? Bleh. It wasn't awesome ; there were a few things I didn't like, but that's just me. but you have my word, this is a book worth reading. 
 ((The idea of pets is really... disturbing. How can people just buy them? Totally with Mrs Harper on the freedom thing. And the way the congressman treated Ella, ugh! it makes me squirm. And it really, really disturbed me how Ella refused to step up for herself, how she refused to stop what people were doing, brr! her naivety was so annoying and so disturbing. What type of place was that place where she came from [I can't remember its name--again] and it was so disturbing how they referred to it as a breeding ground--these girls are actual people, person! I guess that was the point, to disturb, to intrigue, but I really don't like how I can't picture the characters ((chicken dress?)) when I can picture the scenes so well. It kind of left a big major hole. And the plot switch was a bit confusing. I mean they both go to the pool on that night but there's no word on the experience or anything--the next thing you know, she's waking up in her room. And then when she met Missy--no conclusion of the visit--she's suddenly reading a magazine in her room--it was pretty confusing.)) 
 But this book was good. Worth reading. 
 I watched as she dashed out of the garden, leaving me behind, the most frustrated, aching, smitten boy in the whole western hemisphere.