From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up–Victoria, 16, considers herself boy proof–too smart and tough to be appealing to guys. She has renamed herself Egg after her favorite character in a new science-fiction blockbuster, and even dresses like her idol, wearing an all-white cloak. A straight-A student, she dominates classroom discussions and considers no one her friend. The teen spends Tuesdays after school happily sculpting movie monsters with her work-obsessed father, a special-effects guru, and devotes the rest of her free time to squabbling with her actor mother and debating with and disdaining the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club. When Max Carter arrives at Melrose Prep, he is the first person to see past her aggressive exterior. Chaos follows this disruption; soon her grades are falling, she's called to meetings with the dean of students, and she starts to think about Max in exciting and disturbing ways. Some of the dialogue is a bit unbelievable. Victoria, in particular, strains credibility–she alternates between acting tough and being immature. It's hard to think of her as supersharp because of some of the silly things she says. The pacing is uneven as well; Max and Victoria's relationship blossoms with little development. Victoria's growth is the book's real strength. This is a busy first novel whose secondary characters often outshine the protagonist. Still, lonely, overachieving girls may find themselves cheering for Victoria.–Sarah Couri, New York Public Library
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From Booklist

Gr. 7-10. With her shaved head, ring-covered ears, and a swirling cloak, brilliant Victoria insists her name is Egg, after the hero in her favorite sf movie, Terminal Earth, which she has seen 42 times. Who cares that she has no friends in her high-school senior class in Hollywood? She will never be normal. She is "post-apocalyptic." What she loves is working with her dad in movie special effects, tinkering with "eyeballs or aliens or ears." But when brilliant, gorgeous Max arrives, she cannot help loving him, especially because he is also in tune with the sf/fantasy world, and he shows her that she can be her own person, and fight real apocalyptic conservation issues right on earth. Of course, Max is too perfect, and the turnaround message is heavy. But this first novel's clipped, funny, first-person, present-tense narrative will grab teens (and not just sf fans) with its romance and the screwball special effects, and with the story of an outsider's struggle both to belong and to be true to herself. Hazel Rochman
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SUMMARY: In questo 'dramma romano' che poteva essere una celebrazione, non ci sono eroi (nemmeno Cesare, che muore all'inizio del terzo atto) ma soltanto uomini. E non ci sono eroi perché nel Giulio Cesare, di un anno precedente all'Amleto, non ci sono certezze, né valori assoluti. Tutto passa e tutto cambia; i miti sorgono e decadono per essere sostituiti da altri che a loro volta crolleranno; la realtà è inafferrabile e sfuggente, osservabile da mille punti di vista, suscettibile di mille interpretazioni. La Roma che l'opera ci consegna è invero una Roma antica tutta percorsa dai fermenti e dalle lacerazioni della modernità e in cui la geometria della romanità si trasforma nel movimento inquieto (com'è inquieto l'animo di un Bruto che annuncia Amleto) di una Roma manieristica e barocca.