Holy cats you guys. This was bad. Truly bad. Poorly plotted, badly written, characters who are at best full and at worst unbearably annoying. It all combines into a rich tapestry of shit. At no less that three times I looked at my place in the book thinking I must surely be close to the end only to discover I was no where near it! HARD. PASS! I've seen some reviews comparing this to my all time favorite book "the night circus" and I'm so goddamn insulted y'all. The Night Circus is a work of poetic art. This is.... basically all of my least favorite tropes from YA rolled into a single book. Not even current tropes, y'all but old worthless ones! Why did I finish it? Honestly I wanted to see if it was shit all the way down. YUP! It is!