Oh, god, my emotions. I think this might be my favorite of AS King's books. Maybe it hit the closest to home in some respects--small town gossip, stoner parent, etc. (Are there any other YA books that have stoner parents? Well, Ellen Hopkins probably does but not like this.)

UH in summary Astrid Jones may be described as a closested, questioning/queer teen--who has a girl she consistently hooks up with but isn't ready to "come out" as dating a girl, and also isn't sure if she even is a lesbian or if she just likes this one girl. She doesn't feel that she fits in with her family, or most people at her small town school, and she spends a lot of time lying outside watching airplanes go by and "sending love to them" because she doesn't think she needs her love on the ground. IDK, when I heard that part of the book's summary I was like, what a weird emo hobby, but it's kind of beautiful, and I love the interludes where we see the stories of the passengers in the flights overhead.

AS King in a nutshell: WEIRD, EMO, AND KIND OF BEAUTIFUL??

I love all the complexity ascribed to really every character in the novel, and I love the ending, and I just loved it, okay.