This is my least favorite of the Track series so far, but it's nothing against Sunny. I just wasn't the biggest fan of the diary formatting, since it made a lot of the action feel far away. I will say, though, Guy Lockard did a great job narrating passages that would have completely stumped me, turning line graphs and pie charts into an audio format. I didn't even realize that's what he was doing until I found a physical copy of the book and flipped through it.

I also enjoyed the ending blurbs narrated by Jason Reynolds and Guy Lockard, which talked about their friendship and their intertwining careers. At first, I thought that Lockard's style for narrating Sunny was strange, since I hadn't registered Sunny as a Weird Kid™. But then, I realized that this was Reynolds' intention, and now that I've started the fourth book, I can see Sunny's weirdness shining through. Before this book, I had just interpreted him as shy, emotional, and withdrawn.

It was nice getting an additional layer to Sunny's character through this book, and I like how his story arc involves following his own heart rather than the expectations laid out for him by his parents. I was right about his absent mom having a huge presence in this book, and I think that Sunny's inner conflicts on the matter were very well done.