Deirdre Riordan Hall píše pro mladé dospělé čtenáře. Její díla zkoumají témata dospívání a často obsahují prvky magie a fantazie. Čtenáři oceňují její schopnost vtáhnout je do příběhu a prozkoumat složité emoce postav. Její styl je poutavý a její postavy se zdají být reálné.
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. When Sugar meets Even, she has the new experience of someone seeing her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her mother
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who's ruined her life with drugs.