You can also read mine, and MLE's reviews on our blog.This would have been a four star book if it wasn’t for the degradation at the end into a swirling mass of teen angst. Yeah, I am not so much into teen angst.The author did a great job in getting you into Mia’s head, on how scared and frustrated she was with her synesthesia. It made you think, on how the torments of the other children in her third grade math class effected her. On how she kept her synesthesia a secret until she had to tell her parents under the fear of failing two of her classes. I really enjoyed how odd each of her family members were, on how they each popped off the pages with their own personalities. I really loved her little brother, who was obsessed with superstitions.I also really enjoyed the descriptions on how her synesthesia effected her, on how it made certain things easier or harder. How she had a good eye for color in her art, on how she remembered names and numbers by the color she saw them as. I found all this extremely interesting, so I was really disappointed in how it just went to crap in an angst filled avalanche.So when at fifty percent in when she went boy crazy, her best friend went all drama llama, and I foresaw the future, it just became all too after school special for me. So the first half of the book was four stars, the second half two for an average of three stars.
