I must start this by acknowledging that I received this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

I didn't have huge hopes for this, but boy could I not put it down. Seriously--I read it all in a single sitting, because I had to see it out. Holt manages to write Levi as sensitive and complex, even when things sometimes feel a little cliched or over the top. He makes bad choices, choices honestly that are so painful to watch him make that I like had to look away from the book from secondhand embarrassment, which is a fairly new thing for me. But he's also so clearly growing and making different choices, and it's super powerful to see. I'm not sure how the intended audience for this book would see it, but as an adult, I found it to be super compelling and powerful.