Remember how I said that the writers of this book can't do math? By their figuring Batman (remember, the guy with no powers whatsoever) can run 500 yards in 32 seconds and throw a quarter pound hamburger 4 miles. WTF?

But really the biggest thing I have noticed that's bugging me about this book is the complete lack of female examples of *anything*. All mention of players and gamemasters are referred to as male. All pronouns are "him" or "he". All player examples (e.g. *player* decides to have his hero do *action*) are male (Frank, Chuck, George, etc.). No females are mentioned at all. Very rarely are female heroes mentioned. There have been two or three mentions of Wonder Woman, two or three mentions of Starfire (usually to mention that she has the Advantage "Attractive"), and one mention of Black Canary. Nearly all examples of what heroes have what powers are male heroes, all example actions and descriptions are using male heroes, everything is about male heroes. So apparently only boys play this game and only boy heroes are worthy of being discussed. Girl heroes don't do anything noteworthy and no girls play the game. And no one has ever even imagined that a girl might *ever* GM. Grrrrrr....

Gaming is not a boys only club, much as it may seem that way sometimes. Girls play too. I've been playing since I was 10 and it was two girls who introduced me to gaming. Get over the mentality that only boys play. It's insulting and frustrating.

The ending of this book totally redeemed it for me. It wasn't what I expected, but I think that I liked it better for that. Mechanics-wise it worked, logically it worked, and it was extremely creative to boot. I'm really pleased with this book and would happily recommend it and read more books by this author!

This book starts like a pretty normal book about a kid moving to a new city and school (and there are lots of such books out there). That said, I'm already curious and optimistic. I like Ophie a lot. She is unhappy about the move, but full of hope and optimism. I loved her almost meditative vision about the new school, it said a lot about her (and hopefully about the book). I'm already full of questions! Why does Ophie's family move so often? Why does Ophie identify so much with Dorothy Gale? What makes her so optimistic about everything? Why doesn't she usually have good friends? Is it just a lack of time or does she actively keep people at arms length? Why is having a Toto so important? Where *are* her ruby slippers? Did they get lost in the move?

I hope this book stays as interesting as it started!

OK, I'm pretty convinced that on one really edited this book other than perhaps a basic spell checker before it went to print. Besides the issue of sentences not ending (which I've mentioned before) there are other problems. I have come across several places where tenses change randomly, words are mysteriously missing, or sentence structure is such that it says something other than what they seem to intend. In a few places I wasn't even sure what they intended! There seem to be a number of places were + symbols should be - symbols or "left" should be "right" (or vice-versa). It's very confusing.

My very favourite editing mistake thus far was the lack of useful information in the statement "see page xxx" (there are no pages in roman numerals in the entire book).

If I ever turned in a paper this poorly edited I would expect an F mark and some choice comments from the professor!

I'm still enjoying this book, although there isn't quite as much plot as I might have liked. I really like Ophie (although at times it feels like the author is trying a little to hard to make her quirky).

I like that many things that could have been big issues in the story (like Brittney and Tana's family's religiousness) aren't made out to be so. In fact, they are simply there - like nothing could be significant or useful about them at all. I really like that, it makes the book feel realistic and avoids anything that could be a political or moral or whatever statement by the author. I am pretty pleased in general with the book thus far. It's not brilliant at this point, but it is interesting and enjoyable.