Will's brother died a year ago, and now that it's summer Will is back to spending his days helping his parents at their organic food stand where the "summer people" (people Will hates, on almost every other page, simply for having money and for being "clean," a word used as an insult so often I thought that this was set in the dark ages) buy said food and baked goods and spending his nights mooning over Gretchen, the "summer person" who he is allowed to like because she doesn't act stuck up, and Asia, the Edward-Cullen style outsider and obvious mythical creature. What follows is a mismatched tale that switches from moody summer romance cliche to old-school horror back to clueless teenager-land and doesn't do any of them well. All of the dialogue seems stilted, and when Will makes fun of the ageless Asia for speaking in an old-fashioned way I genuinely didn't notice because they all speak like old people and despite the single mention of Facebook, no one uses their phones as often as actual people in 2011. There are too many storylines branching all over, none of which go anywhere, and it took way too long to get to the big reveal of what the creatures are and ended in a very disappointing showdown.