I've been searching for this book for over a year and was overjoyed when Amazon finally had a few items in stock again! I devoured it within a day, because it was easy to breeze through but yet dealt with issues well and provided a nice stock of likable and non-likable characters. I definitely had my issues with Peter sometimes but in the end I came to really like him, when he dealt with his situation head on and stopped his denial of things. Sometimes the book felt a bit dated but since it didn't deal with pop culture or the likes it felt a lot more current than some of the other books (dealing with sexuality) that I've read did. While I was reading I kept thinking "Okay, it really couldn't happen like this today" "No one talks like that anymore" and then I remember that the world still sucks and does react that way and I would get depressed all over again. Some of the Aussie slang was a bit confusing to me but I've managed to figure most of it out.