Mezrich has a gift for finding these amazing stories, and then failing terribly at telling them. This is my second book by him, and my last. He never focuses on anything interesting in his books, choosing instead to spend paragraphs describing women's bodies rather than building tension and talking about the story. He never bothers to explain what an IPO is, despite the fact that it is a huge goal of the protagonists for part of the book, but he wastes a solid paragraph describing the over-lipsticked pant-suited appearance of an unimportant bank teller in Montana. Yawn.

A standard uninventive story of a half-faerie girl who starts to see strange creatures after her mom disappears, and is confronted by her heretofore unknown grandfather who asks her if she will come take her rightful place in the faerie realm. Nothing gets resolved and none of the characters are memorable. The illustrator did a great job with the faeries but a terrible job with the people. None of them looked human, and the four friends all looked so alike I found myself guessing which character was dating who in half the panels.

King writes with a grittiness that is somehow lovely. Highly recommend for someone being bullied in high school.

Incredibly boring start with an insipid character voice. I read the spoilers and am thoroughly uninterested in finishing.

A fun idea, but poor execution. I finished it just for the historical aspects, but was a little disappointed to see that Waters used ring around the rosie as a plague song, when it didn't appear in any written literature until the late 1800s -- now I'm not sure I trust any of the historical aspects.