Review copy provided by Allen & Unwin Australia for an honest review.

For me there are two types of ways you can "like" a book:

1. There are the books that you love because they are written so well you just have to applaud them. [b:Blaze of Glory|1831563|Blaze of Glory (The Laws of Magic, #1)|Michael Pryor|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1203657418s/1831563.jpg|1831435]. [b:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone|72193|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)|J.K. Rowling|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327190600s/72193.jpg|4640799]. They have a great bunch of characters, there is great world-building, excellent setting, the right mix of drama and emotion and an entertaining and grabbing storyline. Everything works perfectly.

2. Then there are books like [b:Shiver|6068551|Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)|Maggie Stiefvater|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1409283154s/6068551.jpg|6244926], [b:Unreap My Heart|17668656|Unreap My Heart (The Reaper Series #2)|Kate Evangelista|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1378027875s/17668656.jpg|24664867], [b:The Host|1656001|The Host (The Host, #1)|Stephenie Meyer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1318009171s/1656001.jpg|3328799] - books that aren't perfectly written, books that you know are probably flawed to the more critical readers, but the characters manage to steal your heart, the romance has you melting you to a puddle, the action literally has you on the edge of you seat, anxiously flipping the pages to see what is going to happen next, the witty remarks leave you laughing, out loud... you get utterly and completely involved in them. You fall in love.

And to me, those are the sort of books that will always be the winners of the two. Those are the sort of books that you want to find, the reason we all keep trudging through the crappy book slumps, the reason we fall asleep at 2 am with a book clutched to our chests, the reason, even after hours of crying, we crawl back to our bookshelves begging for more.

There are lot of things that I could say about [b:This Shattered World|13138734|This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)|Amie Kaufman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1399982893s/13138734.jpg|18315710] but I am only going to say this: I fell in love.

The characters stole my heart. Check

The romance had me melting and swooning. Check.

The action had me on the edge of my seat. Check.

I got utterly and completely involved. Check.