The author was very descriptive and I could picture the scenes very well. The musical references were fabulous - we made a playlist that ran during the book club discussion. I had a love/hate relationship with this book. I loved portions but it needed to be 200 pages shorter so that you did not get lost in the descriptions. It made for a nice discussion about parenting, teenagers, and controlling people.

Only two people in our group finished this book. It was so slow and the characters were not very likable.