Rebecca has always loved designing small tree houses for fairies.
During the trip Alex learns to drive, reconnects with his father, somewhat graphically loses his virginity, and pledges to become a stronger person.
After all, it is her talent that is going to get her out of her dead-end hometown and into Julliard.
Colin is a believable character who isn't perfect but is brave enough to stand up for victims, and wears t-shirts with pictures of rodents as he embraces his "rat" status.
He and his friend Dirk are appealing nerds who accidentally end of transporting themselves, their friend Sarah, and a magic-store owner/dwarf to their future world-a world populated by self-aware machines and rules by the maniacal unicorn "Princess," who rose to power after wining out the human race.
In the course of stringing along her psychologist; avoiding her fake boyfriend; and coming up with an elaborate expose involving a doppelganger, a basket of sandwiches, and a horse, she also learns some lessons about family, friendship, and romance.
Nina discovers that her brother is involved in something illegal and that he has lost interest in gardening, a passion that they once shared, even though he buys her orchids to raise on the fire escape.
He hadn't planned to, but now that he and Tina Zabinski, the world's best-smelling girl, have had their first date, he wants to more to impress her.
He also explains that the strange flash mobs that almost everyone seems to be participating in-a roomful of people stand up and sing show tunes in unison, that go about business as usual and deny that anything strange has happened-are, in fact, experiments in a sinister mind-control plot.
Attracted by Rain's unusual red hair, the starship captain agrees to transport her and Walker through the Void.
**Lines taken from professional reviews, out of context.
It keeps reading reviews interesting.**
