B H

I really struggled with this book. Some beautifully written parts but overall I found the level of detail on background political landscape, overwhelming and took away from the story.

Well worth a read. A perceptive insight into a teenagers life, their challenges living in a modern world. I would however would have liked more character development on each of the girls. Difficult to have sympathy for main character, Emma considering she is portrayed as not a nice character for the first part of the book. Then to elicit sympathy for her at the end of the book is difficult. In order to get better understanding of the book, I had to reread it so as to feel I understood the characters better and why they behaved in the way they did at the end. A lot of characters Introduced at the begining with just names but no context as to who they were. You had to keep reading to try and decipher who was who. Still a good read, better when you read it again:)