I got this at a booksale for a JDRF fundraiser, so I gave it one star for its charitible contribution. Maybe if I'd read the books prior to this one, I might have had a better sense of the characters. Even if I had, I'm not sure I would have liked it any better. I paged through this in an evening (luckily it is fairly short), hoping it would get interesting. It didn't. As the annoying main character, whose name I've already forgotten, is so fond of saying...Yawn.