Oh my God. I LOVED this book!!!!

I LOVED that the entire story wasn't based around some girl falling in love with some boy and they're torn apart by some twisted fate or plot or world....except this did sort of happen. But the IMPORTANT thing is that the love story WASN'T the most important part of the book!

All of the writing was so vivid and fascinating and appealing. I loved the settings, I loved the characters, I LOVED Karou. I ESPECIALLY loved listening to this book - the reader was fantastic and I'll never be able to read a hard copy without imagining her voices in my head. Especially for Brimstone.

I was so so so so so so grateful to be reading such a wonderfully written young adult (although there's some pretty steamy PG-13 stuff which was refreshing after so many gooey YA novels) book that had more to it than boy meets girl, they fall in love, they are torn apart, then get back together, yada yada. You didn't even know about the love story until 3/4 of the way through the book!

READ IT. So. good. I'm glad I finished it so close to book 2's release because I'm dying!