Insanely annoying protagonist.

It takes a lot to make me dislike a female lead, but being a selfish, whiny, typically obnoxious teenager with few redeeming qualities and then making me sit through her moaning forever will do it!

Loved Sabriel though. It's shocking that this is so unbearable in the light of that. Or maybe that makes it MORE unbearable because I know that Nix is perfectly capable writing an extremely likeable teenage heroine.