I really loved this fantasy/romance for the most part. I mistakenly thought it was a YA book given the obvious similarities to Hunger Games and Divergent, but it's shelved as adult fiction at the library. It definitely straddles the line between adult and teen though I would say it leans more teen except for a couple pretty explicit sex scenes. Overall, it follows the formula laid out by so many excellent YA dystopian novels, but it has enough good dialog and great action to keep a reader hooked.

The good: great characters (even the supporting cast), cool dragons and magic, lots of action, a fmc with brains (for the most part), a big twist at the end making me eager for the next book

The not so good: a predictable love triangle, too much teenage angst, obvious bad guys who are rotten and will be defeated by the fmc, obvious bad guys who are really good guys, a cold btch of a mom for no apparent reason other than to make her daughter's life miserable, a complicated organization of the military that's never explained well