Hmmm, where to begin: 
 The concept of infants dying immediately or sooner rather than later was an intriguing one. It's what first drew me to this book but as the novel progressed on, it was what turned me off. Mainly because the heroine kept on mentioning it again and again and was filling my head with all these useless and irrelevant facts about RM and biology and stuff. 
 To summise, I got 
 bored. 
 The tedium of the pace made it even worse. So much that I was almost driven to the point of banging my head against my door. It only picked up in the middle of the story. And the action only fully started thirty pages before the book ended. The writing style also turned me off. It was blocky and choppy and it didn't flow very well. Whenever I read a particularly cringe-worthy sentence, I just wanted to cross all over it with my red pen. Restraining my stabby-stab-stab tendencies became an effort. 
 Now, on to the "romance". I put quotation marks around that word, because I don't believe there was any. The author leaves me confused on who is supposed to be Kira's "love interest". I know there doesn't need to be one, especially in dystopian/post-apocalyptic books such as these, but there's all these sweet, little moments he gives us each with Kira and Samm and Kira and Marcus. Is Samm supposed to be Kira's true love and represent a forbidden love or does Kira belong with her best friend, Marcus, because he was the one who has always stuck by her side? Or if this is Dan Wells' attempt at creating the widely-utilized love triangle, well then...I'm going to have to say this bluntly: it's an awful attempt. I would have liked it better if there wasn't any "romance" in this novel. 
 If I recommend this book, it's because you pissed me off somehow. And my way of getting back at you will be boring you to death. 
 Two stars.