I don’t tend to read books in the teen fiction genre, but I found this book to be quite entertaining. The main character is lovable and endearing. She has a fun sense of humour and often gets sidetracked from her main storyline by random thoughts and memories. There is hardly any dialogue in the story; instead, it reads like a teenage girl’s diary. There were mentions of a ‘dystopian apocalypse’ and ‘Orichalcum’ (a substance that gives its user immense destructive power). Such things would have made this more of a sci-fi story, but perhaps that will continue in the sequel. I plan on reading the rest of the series to see what Mary Botter gets up to next.