I guess I agree with Ari, the problem with adults is that they pretend to know teengaers. They don't. The author made the same assumptions and wrote a novel from a teenagers perspective with a consciousness of an adult. An adult who is not experiencing it all for the first time. Ari is too much of an adult; better suited for a nineteen or a twenty year old. He reacts as if he has already lived through it once, he doesn't react like he is going through it for the first time. For all his pretensions to not know what he is feeling he knows very well how he is feeling and how to express them. That's the problem, teenagers don't know how to express or understand what they're feeling, even in their thoughts. They realise it much later. Still, a good novel. Just too mature for a fifteen year old. I would've liked if they were at least college students.