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set against the backdrop of climate change and ecocide, with cool characters, and a nice conflict between witchcraft and science. i really like that the book doesn't take itself too seriously, even though it is dealing with the big questions. also, there were some really fresh ideas. i really loved that it's in between a young adult and truly-adult book. i loved the friendship between the main characters but i really HATED that it turned into a love story. otherwise this might have been 4 or 5 stars for me.

Ich wusste vor dem Lesen nicht so recht, was mich erwarten würde, habe es wegen der Reviews hier dann aber doch angefangen und bin schwer begeistert von der Art, wie hier so viele Fragen rund um Identität halbwegs niedrigschwellig behandeln werden, ohne dass es sich wie ein Sachbuch liest. Kann es nur empfehlen.

es kann doch nicht sein dass das wirklich passiert ist

I liked it, it was very atmospheric. It starts out in a world that seems normal and ordinary, recognizable as the one we all shared in the early to mid 1990s (for those of us that old). Then, as the LA riots loom and the little girl is revealed to have strange, frightening, unexplainable telekinetic abilities, things get weirder and weirder. The main focus, though, is on the relationship between the girl and her younger brother, the one born during the height of the violence. They journey through pain and injustice to find a place where they can forgive each other, and their mother, and maybe even the world, for what they've been through. Sad but not hopeless.