Fadeaway Girl

I didn't really care for this. Part of it was my fault: it's the fourth book in a series and I didn't know, so I haven't read the others. Most of it wasn't really though. I felt that the narrator did not sound like a twelve year old and was rarely treated like one. I didn't buy that all these adults were hanging out with Emma so much and enjoying it, or they were giving her a hard time. I felt like we were going in circles the whole time too, place-wise in the book but also with the information Emma gathered. The hotel, the cab, the garage. The baby kidnapping, Emma's almost being killed, the Devereau sisters. Etc. Bleh. It would also be interesting to count how many doughnuts Emma ate in this book. I think the only proper food she ate was breakfast once or twice. It was all cookies and brownies and so many doughnuts. I don't know. Maybe it's me and having started on book four. However, given that I didn't really care for the writing or the narrator, I probably won't be checking out the rest of Grimes's books. I do still love the cover though.