I'll admit, the first half of this is pretty slow paced and doesn't really pick up until the last third or so. There's a lot of setting the tone, which makes sense, since this is the first book in a series. But that ending! Blake definitely knows how to grab her readers to be sure they'll continue to the next book. What a cliffhanger ending!

On a side note, I listened to the audiobook of this and got confused when it randomly rewound and I realized I was listening to the same chapters over again. At first, I thought maybe it was a weird formatting thing, but Hoopla was just being weird. The narrator for the audiobook was fantastic, though! And useful because I'm sure there were a bunch of things I wouldn't have been able to pronounce, otherwise.