The premise of the book is promising and I love the idea of a book of the YA genre with a male protagonist. But the little details drag this book down, at least in the excerpt I read. The tone and manner of writing zigzag from simplistic to mature, all coming from the same protagonist within a few sentences of each other. First, Hudson's vocabulary is juvenile and then quickly transitions into use of higher-level words as if the author forgot the persona she was meant to embody. The copy could easily be improved by a thesaurus and a good editor who also has an eye for typos and spelling errors. Certain words are unnecessarily capitalized while others aren't. And this is a strange nitpick, but the names of the characters aren't great. Conversations are a bit stilted and don't ring quite true to the way real teenagers talk. The First Read excerpt was breezy and quick, but I don't feel compelled to pick up the longer novel at this point.