I can see all the ways in which this was a really good book and definitely an interesting YA universe/set of characters. Not sure I want to keep reading, though. It might just not be for me.

AND YOU KILLED THE DOG! HOW DARE YOU! There are very few unforgivable sins in my fictional universes, but don't you dare make me fall in love with the dog and then kill it! Even if justified by circumstances. That may have lost this book an entire star.