This was a quick, fast, dystopian YA novel that sets you up for more books. There is a blood fever that came through the land and killed all of the adults who contracted it, but to each of the kids that contracted it, it left them with markings and special abilities. Society has attached these people with a stigma that is only getting worse, very similar to what the Jews experienced in Germany before the war. They are being blamed for all the poverty or struggle, they are being limited in social interactions, they are being threatened to be banned from the city, etc. Our main character is a girl with one eye who had the blood fever as a child. Nobody knows her skill though since she has been unable to produce it while running away to prevent being illegally bought underage to be some gross guy's mistress (and who wouldn't run away from that lovely scenario). Now that she's produced these special powers, the government wants to get rid of her but she's saved by a band of other people with special abilities and becomes a part of this group trying to bring the government down and put the rightful prince on the thrown. That's the basic premise of the novel in a nutshell. It didn't wow me but it did take me on an adventure that I want to see where it leads, so there's that. It is definitely in the same vein as An Ember in the Ashes, so if you enjoyed that book, you'll probably enjoy this one as well.