3.5 stars. I kind of expected to hate this book because of all the negative reviews I read of this book, but that isn't true. I thought the story was very interesting. There were a few things that i've seen before in young adult/dystopian books, but it didn't bother me too much. The plot was a little slow for me, it kind of felt like a build up for the next book in the series. A lot of the story is in Cassia's head and I noticed that I lost my attention for the book sometimes because of that. But in the end I did like it. I like Ally Condie's writing and the story was interesting enough. Not anything special, but enjoyable.