What can you say about a book from someone who's obviously a talented writer, but who seems to have strapped down her creative freedom in order to push one narrow agenda?

The agenda, in this case, seems to be the specialness of Gifted children, and it's turned what should have been a novel into a manifesto. Romey is capable of writing up a storm (there's one scene which will seize your heart) but the world and heroine she's created seem rather flat taken as a whole. ( )