Very well written, but it made me SO STRESSED OUT. I could not stop for more than a few hours before I needed to know what happened next even though the entire book made me so depressed.

Possible spoilers, idk yet.

I understand Jack's destructive tendencies and why therefore the author felt the need to put in the F*** you, Jack every other sentence, but it still got old to me. It took away from the storyline.
I worry a bit about the consequences of writing a book for YA that depicts something terrible happening to someone and having them not talk to anyone about it who could help them (except for his friend).
I wish we had ended this book with a few more answers than we did - I don't really feel strongly that any of the questions raised in the book actually got answers, it just set us up for the next book (I guess?). Maybe just pick one of the following to answer: What's the point of Marbury? What happened in that world? What was the "war?" Why didn't Wynn and Stella seem to care more that they rarely heard from their grandson?

The parts of the book that made me the most miserable and uncomfortable were whenever Jack would come to and not have any memories from hours or days. I think it's a personal thing, because nothing terrifies me more than losing my memory or having someone tell me I did something that I have no recollection of. This happens to me a lot when I'm napping because I'll have nightmares that I forget things. Scary.

I'm obviously going to read book 2 because I just have to know. But not because I want to.