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Throughout the entire book I was quite confused. It wasn't until about three froths in did I realize what was going on. I have never read a book that had like three separate little stories. It was just like a soap opera I also didn't realize that they would all tie into each other in the end. Now that I have finished the book I can see much foreshadowing. I thought the beginning was very random until i finished the book. I was not sure what the boy and his transformers had to do with the story. I don't think it is bad to transform ones self. You just need to have self control and don't lose yourself. I think a point in the story was that you should love yourself for who you are. I have never read a comic book so this was a interesting change of read for me.

I think that is correct -- all people change as they mature, but the point is to change but to stay true to who you are -- not to try to become someone else -- someone you think other people will like better.

I was intrigued by the milk tea the boys drink at the end -- it is referred to as pearl milk tea. It has little lumps of something in it. In next year's GMBA title "Assassination Vacation" she writes of drinking bubble tea in a Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C. -- it is on the site where the boarding house where Lincoln's assassination was planned. I wonder if that is the same as pearl milk tea. I have never seen this type of tea in a Chinese restaurant.