I appreciated this more on reread as an adult than I did in 10th grade. I think I just missed out on a lot of it. It's very episodic, and in nearly every episode, we get a character that jumps off the page - and can be summed up in a few words. It's a lot of memorable personalities! The plotting wasn't all there for me, and parts of it dragged a lot, but overall the twists were fun - kind of like a soap opera.