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Claire, an average-looking champion swimmer with a crush on an unattainable guy, a best friend who obsesses about her weight, and an unknown father, seems like a normal teenage girl -- except that during electrical storms, she has a tendency to temporarily "switch" bodies with other girls her age. Oh, and she regularly converses with her dead grandmother, who had the same problem (and who may or may not have died as a result of it). Aside from that, her life is pretty normal, until she finds herself stuck in the body of a bitchy but beautiful newcomer.

On the surface, this might sound like a book you've read before, but several things set it apart. First, Claire's voice is real, likeable, and funny. I would want to find out what happens to her even if it wasn't particularly exciting. Second, this book seems a lot more grounded than a lot of other teen novels. For one thing, Claire really is average looking -- it doesn't turn out in the last chapter that she's actually drop-dead gorgeous and could have the guy of her dreams in a snap, except she somehow failed to notice this until now. (When her old body's new inhabitant starts dressing in more sexy clothes, she doesn't suddenly start attracting guys -- instead she just looks silly.) The problems in her life aren't magically solved by her experience, and the lessons she learns are subtle and realistic without being any less important.

The conclusion seems a bit rushed -- there's no clear explanation of how Claire gets herself out of the messes this experience has caused. But I'm hoping for a sequel....