Jo Walton on Brat Farrar...

...which is ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER.

Seriously.  The first time I read it, I was living in Boston with CC. I kept stomping into into her room and demanding, "THIS HAD BETTER END WELL. IF THIS DOESN'T END WELL, I'M GOING TO BE REALLY MAD!!", to which she would just respond by shooing me out of her room while saying, "Just finish it, you ass!"