It is deeply puzzling to me - and I could not ultimately get past it - that she chose to use a first-person narrator for this book. All the literary prose would have been fine with an omniscient, POV narrator, but instead we had an ostensible 12 year-old who sounded very much like what a well-educated middle-aged woman would think a middle-aged man would sound like talking about his experiences as a 12 year-old. I did appreciate all the chapters titled after TNG episodes though, that was almost worth an extra star.