Cell/YMMV

• Complete Monster - Gunner. When a character is Mind Raped and nailed up to a building with shards of glass and allowed to bleed out, fully aware of the whole thing, and people feel like they got off too light, you know that they did something really horrible.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: The description of Stephen King is present as with a lot of novels which wish to give a little bit of info on the author. However, this particular paragraph concludes with the phrase, "[Stephen King] has never owned a cellphone".
• Ho Yay - Tom is canonically gay. Clay...is not, however, he does kiss Tom twice in extremely somber, emotional moments, and also muses about getting to know him better a lot.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Averted with Alice's death
• Paranoia Fuel: To hell and back.
• The Woobie - Alice Maxwell is a high school sophomore who spends the first half of the book recovering from the trauma of having her mother go insane and try to kill her, then witnessing more violence in an hour than most people see in their entire lives. Even though she does seem happier near the end, the end for her comes a bit short.