I didn't really grow up in Los Angeles, but spent my adolescent years in Orange County, which was pretty close to it and I also went to a college near L.A. so I was able to absorb the L.A.'s uniqueness and its own special culture and this book PERFECTLY describes what L.A. is like.

From the variety of ethnic and cultural background of characters and he layout of the city, it is just spectacular. It's also really neat seeing all the names for the freeways like the 405 S and the Santa Monica Freeway. It was also cool to see the Runaways gather around for a secret meeting in the Griffith Observatory Tower and they even had the James Dean's face sculpture there! And I literally laughed out at the part where Nico wanted to go to In'N'Out past midnight because trust me: Double-Double w/ Animal Fries ARE THE SHIT especially at 2:30 in the morning. And they're even listening to the 1070 AM radio to find out that The Pride has the entire city in their hands.

And I don't know if it's just me, but at the part when the kids find out their parents doing a sacrificial ritual, and Chase says that the parents were doing some sort of a lame performance art, that just struck me as a very L.A. kind of thing to say. And something about Gertrude also struck me as having that classic L.A. snarky characteristic that so many people have. (People say that New Yorkers are snarky, but Los Angelinos are no slouch with that either lol)

And, it's really nice and refreshing to see a female-majority led team and seeing that the boys don't really have a problem with that. Oh, and Karolina Dean's a smokeshow ;)

I look forward to reading more of this story!