I really loved this book it was one of the best books that I have read in a long while. I really liked the characters especially Annie and Lee even with all of the hardships each character faced they seemed so grounded in reality that made them easy to sympathize with I liked the slow and gradual romance between them it was very refreshing. I like how Lee is not your typical revenge seeking character he is the opposite he sees the horrible things his family did and does not want them repeated. I like how Annie knew all along who Lee really was but cared for and loved him enough that no matter what she suffered at the hands of his family she does not automatically but him in the place of her family's killer. I really liked the plot of this book it started with bits of one character's past trauma and moved right along to how the revolution that lost Lee his family and how they do things with metal based caste systems and how being a dragon rider is an earned thing. Both characters struggle with what happened in the past and how to accept it and stay right where they are now. Many bad things happen that put Lee in conflict with how he remembers things and how they actually were and in the end he chose his side to fight for. So overall I just loved this book and I am really looking forward to the sequel.