There’s some really good books about kids out there. But this is the kind of story where kids, in all their preteen arrogance, make stupid, borderline dangerous decisions when what they should be doing is getting an adult involved. So it was frustrating to read.

That being said, it was an interesting book for the portrayal of gender fluidity and also - and I didn’t expect this - of its portrayal of synesthesia. I’ve read a few books where a character is genderfluid in some regard and a few books where a character has synesthesia, but neither have ever been portrayed like they were here, and I think this is the portrayal of each that will stick with me.