I've been hearing a lot of good things about other books by this author, so I guess there's a reason why I found this at the second-hand store and not the others. There were some points of good writing in this, but that was it. The plot was lacklustre, nonsensical, and dumb. The characters were annoying. So annoying. So stupid. So many simple things could have been done to make this better and none of those things were done. I've been forcing myself to finish it today so that it doesn't ruin my day tomorrow.