3.5 stars, 6.86 on CAWPILE

listen, I enjoyed many parts of this book. I liked the plot. I liked the writing. I liked maybe 1/2 the characters. But the stuff that bothered me about the characters that I didn't like REALLY bothered me!!!

Mallory was so obtuse and so... head up her ass, woe is me, I can't communicate anything and will thusly just self sacrifice my entire life for my sisters and mom who...
holy hell sabrina pissed me off! says she didn't ask mallory for any of this help when she QUITE LITERALLY was harassing her over her derby fees?
the bitching about dinner towards the end really really pissed me off especially with the mom joining in? wtf? mallory might have been obnoxious to read about and to be in her head but holy hell her family sucked.

rant over. okay, I don't know how I can like a book while getting so annoyed and mad about many of the characters, but somehow I did. Still a cool plot. And Nolan was great.