I always enjoy a good coming of age story and Julia's awkward junior high storyline was heartbreakingly identifiable to me. And the setting of the story, during a time when the earth literally begins to stop spinning, was really intriguing. I like a good sci-fi yarn, but I feel like she was just setting a scene (with some really creative details of the most mundane, yet fascinating things that might happen if the world would cease to spin) and never brought that part of the story to a conclusion.