I didn't knew what to expect after the Half-Bad trilogy, but I gotta say I'm pleased with this book.

The beginning is kind of hard to pass; since you have 5 different PoV's, it is hard to feel engaged with any of them; it take a while to see where everyone's paths are going to start to intertwine, so I was like "meh" for a while. However, suddenly I was caring for this characters and I was curious about this world, so I kept reading.

There are flaws in here, yes. But there's also a beginning for something really promising and some of the PoV's were so so good; for me, the best one was Catherine. I loved the political plot that was all over her story. I would skip some chapter from the other characters when they were too far away from her story, because I was really invested on what was going to happen with her and her plot. The only glaring flaw in my opinion is her thing with Ambrose. It felt such a shallow crush and sometimes she'd ramble too much about it... if later it's shown as someones first love, and therefore, as awkward and intense and those tend to be (very childish, which doesn't take out validity though), my opinion on it may change, but I really dreaded when those parts came. However, her growth as a female character was like "yeah girl, you go!".

The other characters were okay, some better than the others, and I liked the cliffhanger that taunts for the second book. I'm still interested enough to keep reading, so when I have the next one, I'll leave my review.