Let me start by saying: this book desperately needs an editor, and a copy editor. The descriptions are insanely repetitive, and there are so many errors that at times it is massively confusing (like, the wrong name used, in several places).

The schizophrenic nature of the chapters is also tough. She seems to be trying to mirror George RR Martin's style - each chapter in a different POV - but the chapters are so short (and the book overall is so short) that I get whiplash with the transitions, and feel like we're spinning our wheels. There's no time spent on any one character, to give real forward movement. Basically, if you glue three books together, you'd have what seems like a normal story arc.

And all the leading teens - Kyra, Alec, Dierdre, Aiden - are just stunningly stupid. Fully TSTL. It's becoming painful.

I'm only reading onward, at this point, because I'm on vacation and my kindle hasn't got anything else loaded. *sigh*