I've read a few books by this author and this is by the one I've liked the least.

Shay had a shit life but i really didn't like her much, exfept for when she was being a mother to Mia, which was lovely. Shay was just super untrusting and refused to actually talk shit out and that annoyed me no end. I just wanted to slap her multiple times for acting like she did. Somethings are totally understandable other were a bit too much for me to stomach in term of her reasoning.

Kellum also wasn't amazing i get that he's a good guy and doing the right thing and that he finally 'took off the rose tinted glasses' but honestly if people had pushed the same issues earlier it would have happened earlier..  maybe not before Shay but still earlier than it did happen. I get that we don't always see our fanily as others do, but they all blame him for that, when he did bothing wrong really.

I like how the Wall family rallied for Kellum and Shay but honestly I didn't like this world or the characters, so i probably won't be reading more of these. But i do want to try the Steel Bones series maybe that will be a better fit.