Alright, so this was interesting... and completely unnecessary.
I would've much preferred this book had it all been in Juliette's POV. Every time we switched back and forth stuff just got repeated a lot and it really took me out of the story. I'll be honest, I skimmed A LOT just because we were being told the same information over and over and over again. Scene that could've easily been edited down to "I filled Kenji in on what happened the night before" SOMETHING. On a related note, so much information is revealed throughout in these long explanations and it's just a lot of info dumping. The beginning and the middle, in particular. But the beginning has to work twice as hard as the rest of the book because it struggles to fill in all the bits we need coming from Ignite Me, which was supposed to be the conclusion. It was just poorly paced.
I liked the introduction of the other supreme commanders kids, and Nazeera is the only character I could stand in this novel.
Warner and Juliette continue to both be unbearable idiots. I thought we were done with "broken Juliette" but we get even more excerpts from her journal in the asylum I didn't really care about.
I also noticed a lot of extra words. There's so much fluff. So much that could be edited out and be replaced with better pacing.
Overall, I just didn't care enough. I want to CARE about the characters I'm reading about. So, 2/5 stars.