Hornby really knows how to get into the mind of a 15-year-old boy. The author is best known for his adult "guy lit" books like About a Boy and High Fidelity, and this is his first venture into young adult literature. The main character has a Hornby stream-of-consciousness voice, but the books is a little preachy for me.
Sam lives in England with his single mom, who had him when she was still a teenager. He skates, but don't think that he is an ice skater--he's a skateboarder. The book becomes a one about teenage pregnancy, but Hornby handles it from the guy's point-of-view. He didn't intend to follow in his mother's footsteps, and Sam doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps, too. So he chooses not to.
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