"See how the sunlight catches in her hair?" "Yes, it's charging her battery."

This is what I wait for.  This is why I slog through YA series after series, author after author, mundane retelling after mundane retelling:  to find a story that makes me go "SQUEE!!!"  (That's an overexcited happy sound to those of you who have never owned a guinea pig or chinchilla.)  Oh my, oh my.  The Different Girl by Gordon Dahlquist had me so confused I was writhing in literary anticipation.  I got the gist of what was going on only after I got over my pig-headed determination that the "different girl" would not be one of the four gals I had already decided upon.  Even after the soft reveal, I wanted more. I wanted to know everything.  I don't know how to say it without giving it away!  I wanted to stop in the middle of the story, call the author, and ask him for more details, more back story, more more MORE!!!  I am not saying that the author left too much out, he just revealed it so casually and slowly that I was thirsty for more right away.  One reveal got my mind spinning and rethinking everything I had already read only to have another one pop up a little while later.  (See what I mean?  SQUEE!!!)  5 out of 5 mustard-less sandwiches to Gordon D.  Great story if you like sci-fi that is not out of this world and just creepy enough to contain a grain of truth.