Finn Easton, with his heterochromatic eyes, epilepsy, and penchant for marking time not with seconds but with miles, is one of the best characters of Young Adult literature in 2014. I smell Printz honor bait here.

Struggling to be "fine" is hard when you suffer from seizures caused by a horse carcass that fell on you and killed your mother when you were just a kid, and especially when your father basically stole your very self - eyes, scars, and name - to write a bestselling novel. Finn does a good job portraying fine, especially since his best friend Cade Hernandez is such a god. Cade's nickname isn't Win Win for nothing.

But, Finn's veneer begins to crack as a series of events show him that maybe fine isn't enough. Can Finn get out of his father's book and come into his own?

Quirky, vulgar in the best possible way, and so poignant, 100 Sideways Miles is the best YA novel I've read this year.