I guess some people might find this book boring. It doesn't talk about anything "grand" and there's no "adventure". It talks about an elementary school girl, Serena, that was abandoned by her mother and abused by her father. She doesn't get any help and is dismissed by the only person she confines in. She copes with the whole situation by getting obsessed with recently deceased Liane Norton, who was the lead singer of a British band called The Cups. She imagines her life with him and basically lives with an imaginary boyfriend. 

His is a book about abuse and not coping with it. About a person that never got any help from people around her. It's not very hopeful and to be honest I found it rather depressing but I guess this is what the author was going for. And like, it is a debut novel, so kudos to the author and I hope that her future works will get better! For now, 3/5