Not a bad distopian novel. It takes place in a world divided into two factions -- Greaters (higher birth) and Lessers (lower birth), and revolves around one special girl. It has some nice twists and turns, but rather more sadistic violence than I am normally comfortable with. (Twice, she gets brutally flogged, once almost to death.) There's two lovely guys in her life, vying for her affections, and it takes a mature turn in the second half toward larger themes I suspect will be covered in subsequent books. 
 My only complaint with it is the writing occasionally strays from past-tense into present-tense, which is a little jarring. It's a bit verbose in places in its descriptions, but that's a matter of personal preference only, not a criticism.