I seriously doubt that the human race has much of a future left with this kid in it, at least the portion of the human race he is plugged into. I understand that he is just a 17yr-old kid, and he's not expected to grasp the difference between real friends and imaginary ones yet, but seriously? There may have been ways of making the choice at the end of this story seem right, for him or for anyone else, but this novel didn't convince me. I won't ruin it for those who have the intention still of reading this book, but it was disappointing. What really dropped the star rating on this book for me (from a 4 the vague non-storytelling bits already bugged me too much for a 5) was the ending. I was grateful that at least the book was not full of angsty teen dialogue that very few teenaage boys (and not many girls) I've ever known would be caught uttering, even under their breath there were a few pages of this, of course, because as a YA novel, how could it not throw in just a dose of the angsty stuff. After a while being mysterious about who the only character introduced so far is, with constant but vague hints that there is a story, but that the author isn't going to tell it just yet, tamp down whatever excitement and interest the reader might otherwise have felt while reading about the character's strange 'post'-death experiences. Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this.
The writing was ok, certainly well edited, but awfully vague and boring for the first 50 pages.
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