I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I think the problem was that I expected too much from it and I read it with the wrong frame of mind. Overall, I enjoyed the story well enough, but I found the writing to be average and the interactions to be immature. Although, being that it is from the POV of a 12 year old boy, I think that was kind of the point. I can see the appeal of the the book, and I understand why many people related to and enjoyed it. I will probably go on to read the sequels just for the heck of it.