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I've never read Carrie Vaughn before, but I met her at Denver Pop Culture Con this year, and she liked my costume. We took pictures. I'm really happy that I enjoyed this book as much as I did. In a world where dystopian fiction is at peak saturation, this was a totally different kind of story. It's really more of a small town murder mystery set against a dystopian backdrop. The telling of Enid's story in alternating flashback and present day scenes really worked, and kept the action quietly building. I really love quiet genre fiction, and that's exactly where this fit. I also like that in any other dystopian story Enid would undoubtedly be the villain, and I kept expecting her to uncover something dark about her society, but the end left me feeling hopeful and very convinced in the power of birth control. You maybe have to suspend your disbelief a bit to believe that society essentially chooses to live medievally except for solar cars and the world's greatest birth control ever invented, but you know what, I'll roll with it.