I gave this book a 2 out of 5 star rating.
I can only describe this book in one way: annoying. David Levithan has some interesting thoughts and feelings but he doesn’t express them in a very usual way. The novel starts when the main character finds a picture of himself in an envelope. He has no idea where this picture came from or who took it. Over the next few weeks, he gets more photos in similar envelopes. He and his friend decide to track down who is sending these mysterious photos. As the get closer to figuring out who is behind this, the dark mysteries of the past become revealed.  From the beginning of the novel, there are so many mysteries and so many unanswered questions it makes the plot seem completely irrelevant. Levithan leaves the lines between the past and present so blurred we can’t understand the present in any way. This leaves the reader with confusion that Levithan definitely could have reduced a bit. He does this on purpose but it distracts from the occurring events enough that it’s purely annoying. When the climax finally does happen and all the mysteries are revealed nothing really surprises you in any way. The only thing that throws you off guard is when a new character is introduced in the end who links everything together. However, this character is never  seen anywhere else in the novel which leaves you with a kind of so what? In the long run David Levithan has some great ideas but when it comes to putting them on paper they don’t work out quite as he might have imagined. This book is similar to: The Stranger and A Tale of Two cities.