Susan Beth Pfeffer is one of my favourite authors and I was thrilled when I found this book in our school library. The plot is very interested. Mafia book are one of my favourite books and when I read on the back of the book that the Mafia (Vals father) is in the book, I just wanted to go home and read. I finished it already in the bus and must say... wow. I got angry in the first couple of pages because it is so..I really do hate Vals cousin and I hate that Val doesn't defend her when she got into a fight with her cousin. I wished that the book was longer.