This was one of my most anticipated books of 2012, and it had so much hype surrounding it! I want to start out with some non story related stuff about this book... 1) The cover is beautiful! 2) The book trailer is really good! & 3) It's been optioned for film! This will be good...

On to the real review:

This book had a really interesting concept that was unlike many other books that I've read. It is a sci-fi, but I found myself thinking of it like a dystopian novel. My reasoning for this is that Pia is VERY BA! The fact that she is immortal has a lot to do with it but she had a really strong personality. I love how she grew as a character throughout the book after learning more about what truly happened at Little Cam. Also, if you think about it, the scientists are a bit like the governments in other dystopian novels. They're very controlling and I found it interesting how I spotted that similarity.

Other favorite characters would have to be Ami (she's so cute!!), and Aunt Harriet. I never really became attached to the other characters besides those and Pia. Although I didn't like Eio at first, he grew on me towards the end of the book.

The reason I gave this only 4 stars, was because I felt like the story was a bit slow in the beginning, and only became really really good towards 3/4 of the way through the books. That wasn't a major issue, because that ending was, well, whoah!

Overall, I really liked this one, and I'll be looking forward to more books from Jessica Khoury!