I absolutely loved this bilingual, tri-cultural jaunt into a mucus-covered alternate reality. Although I doubt Angie will continue to find a teenage El Viejo angry but lovable -just angry and, possibly, Emo.
When I started the story, I only had about five minutes to listen, with high plans of continuing later at work. After ten minutes, I cancelled my plans and just listened. Gee, that happens often with Podcastle. Curse you, you eternal time suck!!! Seriously, though, the author did a great job with the story building. Please, please, please, continue feeding us stories.
Now for pointless analysis: the author did an phenomenal job with the age-appropriateness of the nature of the characters. Great sibling interaction. However, I have to point out that their reasoning capacities were a bit too adult -especially evident with the discussion between Angie and her friend.