After being shunted around the foster care system in London, Jem has become a withdrawn, troubled teenager who refuses to make friends. Those numbers just happen to be the date that person will die, and unfortunately for Jem, she realized this after her mother’s death of an overdose. That’s a genre? Awesome! The book follows Jem, the protagonist, who for as long as she can remember has seen numbers when she looks at people. Amazon has it listed as “Spine-Chilling Horror,” which made me laugh. I’ve seen it advertised as science fiction, but it’s definitely not that. Numbers is one of those books that’s difficult to classify. Of course, she likes to organize her books by size, which makes my eyelid twitch so…
My nonfiction bookcase is divided up by subject, and that drives my mother crazy. As cluttered as I am, I do like to neatly categorize things. I know I tend to quibble over genre classifications, but I can’t help it.
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