I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but I love almost any dystopian YA novel. I'm getting more and more picky as I age out of the YA genre's target audience. Although I gave this book a five star rating because I really like the plot, it wasn't quite as dark as I'd hoped. It didn't quite delve as deeply into emotions as I had hoped it would. I also thought the romance was a bit sudden and needed more development. In sum, this book would have been perfect with another 100 pages to develop the romance, or it would have been perfect without any romance and more depth of darker emotions.

I still went with five stars because I have great hopes for this trilogy and I enjoyed Lucian's character enough to make up for the shortcomings of the novel.