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What fun! Two music-obsessed teens meet cute in a grungy club, and then continue to meet each other over the course of a long Manhattan night. Both authors get their respective narrators just right - no teenage angsty stereotypes in sight - and the book is as much a homage to New York (or, a bridge and tunnel kid's dream of New York) as it is an honest teen romance.

Read and reviewed this book for the paper. The man tells a good story, I must admit. But outside of the fact that it is a well-spun tale set in an exotic locale, I can't vouch much for the writing style, which is competent enough, nor the themes and ideas, which are just this side of being cliches. A fast, fun read, but populist fiction of our times it shall remain. I'm sure it'll top the NY Times Bestselling List faster than the Miami Herald can say, "Superb!" (Populist fic; 350+ pages)