I've never read Marie Lu's Legend series, but this book kind of makes me not want to. It's not that this book was terrible, but I wouldn't say it's good. Marie likes to repeatedly say things like "I don't know how much time has passed," "I lost count of the minutes," etc. The main character, Adelina, I think is purposefully dislikable, because she's so full of hate and is so selfish. It's a nice change from how authors usually write their characters as the type of person they, and the readers, would like. The storyline and the writing all just seems kind of pushed, like they told her she had a week to come up with and write a whole book, and this is what she came up with. I don't mean to be so cruel, I'm sure a lot of people love the book, it's just not my... style I guess I would say.