I'm not exactly sure why I couldn't get into this... I suspect it's the culmination of a change that's been coming for a long time: I'm not sure I can really do YA so much anymore. Maybe it's just my mood -- I've been reading pretty much exclusively romances recently, so maybe it's a briefer change in the wind. There was nothing that stands out as bad about this, I just could not for the life of me get into it. The stories were an interesting aspect of it but other than that the plot generally crawled and I had trouble getting behind the main romance given where it started.