I'm not sure where I heard about this book, but I was really excited for it. It starts off great with a strong heroine who has special powers and is returned to the cool alternate world her parents were from, but then the junior high romance takes over. I wasn't expecting it since it's shelved in adult science fiction. In my opinion this is a YA book. It's too bad the dumb romance saturates the rest of the story because it could have been a really great book. I wanted to give it 4 stars, but I got too irritated with the whiny crap. In fact, I may end up downgrading it as I keep thinking about how annoying it got.