This book was about a girl’s life from ages 10-18. I can’t say it isn’t an interesting concept and the book itself was fairly interesting, however I wasn’t at all satisfied with it. Nothing ever really happens to the girl, just to people around her. A story isn’t very interesting when the main character never actually does anything or grows emotionally in any way.

This was the first book I’ve ever read where I got to the final page and turned it, fully expecting at least one more chapter. It was a non-ending.

I wish I could wrap my head around why this one is so popular, but to be frank, I just can’t get it.

I loved the main character in this book, Evelyn Bucknow. The book follows Evelyn from elementary school up until the end of high school, and the author perfectly captured the emotions you feel at those stages of your life. Evelyn’s very religious and very conservative grandmother has a lot of influence on her throughout most of the book. Evelyn’s thoughts about that were very interesting for me to read because I sometimes have trouble understanding those viewpoints. There were a couple points when I didn’t believe her character would just adopt her grandmother’s opinions as her own, but I’m not sure if that’s a reflection on the writing or my own difficulty in understanding the logic behind those opinions. But the book was a great read, and I gobbled it up faster than any other “adult” book I’ve read lately.