Dippy, but kind of charmingly so. Sort of like leftover Halloween candy that you keep eating even though it isn't even that good, because there's a whole bowl of it RIGHT THERE and it's so easy to grab just one more piece.

I picked it (and the rest of the trilogy) up on Kindle sale because its sequel got mentioned on the Tiptree longlist in 2017. Cool that one of the main characters wears hijab.

Ultimately a younger kid might like this but I don't think I'm Y enough for this YA. (But I'll probably still read the sequels.)