this book sat in my to be read stack for many months. bella placed it there along with an unhealthy need that i read it. picking it up and studying it i asked her about the story. she told me. i handed her the book back explaining i wanted nothing to do with a book that pitted children against one another. she pushed the book back towards me and said it wasn't that bad and the story was great and i just had, had, had to read it.

so i read it and it turned out to be less evil than it could have been and more enjoyable than i expected it to be.