Review Detail

Reader reviewed by The Library Lurker

Let's start with Indigo, the main character. She's supposed to be
eighteen. The book starts at the end of her senior year. I really didn't
see her as eighteen. At times she was older, at times she was younger.
She could be extremely observant, cynical, and wiser than her years at
times, especially in the beginning, but she could be whiny, dense, and
unable to see her own life at others, towards the end. I definitely
liked her better in the beginning, when she was just a normal girl with a
normal waitress job and a normal boyfriend. That was interesting to me,
her life and the people in it.



Then, near the halfway point, she suddenly gets 2.5 million dollars.
Which WHOA is a lot of money. I mean, what do you DO with all of that
money? Well, the rest of the book is about that: what Indigo does with
the money and how she handles it. Except that felt false to me. I had a
hard time believing that as soon as Indigo got money she turned into
this whiny ten year old. That she would blow it on things like a singing
soap dispenser. I don't know, maybe it's because that's definitely not
how I would handle it, so I had a hard time believing that anyone would
act like that.



The first half of the book I really enjoyed, the second half, not so
much. Overall Indigo was a good main character, but at times I just
wanted to smack her over the head. It wasn't a bad book by any means,
just not as good as it could have been.