This was a pretty ok experience for me, a solid 3,5 stars. I think the reason why it wasn't the best was that I don't really go for dystopia fiction or YA, and while this was more dystopian than YA, the element was still there in my opinion.

I thought the prose was very beautiful. I'm not a huge fan of lyrical writing, and this book managed to be descriptive and beautiful without getting absurd. Dystopia fiction always includes a critique of the world we're currently living in (or at least it should), but I don't like over-explaining the past and how we got to this dystopian situation. In my opinion there was a little bit too much explaining here.

The book didn't go where I was assuming it would go, which is on me I guess, and I feel like it was me who ran out of steam rather than the book. In the end I wasn't interested enough to continue to the sequel, but I would definitely read something else from this author.