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 I wasn't originally planning on reading this book; I'd read the first and not enjoyed it much, so I didn't see any reason to start this one. However, I came across it in the library, and as it was there, I thought 'why not?'. You can find my review of Slated here. (Also, don't read this review if you haven't read Slated, because there will be spoilers here.) 
 Unfortunately, this book was not an improvement on the last. I was just so completely underwhelmed, with this book and the last. The problem is that everything is so lacklustre. Kyla/Rain/Lucy/whoever she's decided to be now doesn't really want to be in Free UK; she's just caught up in it. Almost everything she gets involved in is by accident and she's so passive. 
 I'm not saying that moderation is a bad thing; her decision to not kill Lorders with Free UK is one that I agree with. But it takes her the entire novel to realise what we know from the very beginning - that she can't be in Free UK. She just lets herself be carried around and influenced by other people, especially Nico, who is very obviously manipulative and a little crazy, right from the very beginning. 
 The only thing she is vaguely passionate about is Ben, and unfortunately (this is my fault rather than the author's) I can't even remember much about him from the first book. He's pretty absent here, having been taken by the Lorders for cutting off his levo at the end of the first book. But Kyla obsesses about him a lot. At some points I was rooting for her to forget about him and find a new love interest, just because I couldn't remember why she liked him so much. 
 Speaking of characters, my favourite was Katran, and I thought more could be made of his character. I thought that maybe they'd fall in love or something, but, alas, it wasn't to be. I also like Cam, and was shocked by the twist to do with him. 
 I didn't like Kyla, mostly for the reasons I've said before. She's too passive, too indecisive and too annoying. I don't feel any sympathy for her at all. 
 The part that irritated me most about this novel was the writing. The author doesn't use full sentences sometimes, which really irritated me. It wasn't as poorly edited as the last book was, but it still had sentences that could've been written a lot better. Sometimes they didn't make sense, sometimes they were just irritating enough to remind you that you're reading something, and so jar you out of the world. She loved to use short, incomplete sentences, but the technique was used too much. 
 I also though the pacing was misjudged; the book was far too long for what actually happened (which was basically a whole lot of nothing for most of the book). 
 Just like the last, this book left me cold. It just didn't have any spark or life to it, nothing to make me think about it or want to read more. It's not by any means a rubbish book, it's just okay.