4.5 stars 
 I really did enjoy this installment, we see a bit more of Gwen and Logan plus we finally see Gwen really interacting with the other students and starting to make a place for herself. 
 There were just a few things that bugged me: 
 1) Estep always overdoes the recaps - it is the same problem I have with the Elemental Assassin series, I can literally skim through a dozen or so pages because it is all just reiterating what already happened. It is not even recapping the events of the last book, but also the basics (how her mom died) and then how she feels about those past events (emotions which were already explored in previous books) - it is just frustrating to me. 
 2) This second point is probably just me and my own personal issues, but it really bugs me when there are multiple references to Estep's other books in this one. Since the book isn't supposed to take place in the same world it was just distracting to me, and it distracted me from this book and made me want to go look up when the next Elemental Assassin book comes out, etc. There were at least three references to her other books in this and it just pulled me out of the story a bit. This is probably just me being picky and whiny. 
 Overall it was a fun read, quite predictable in some respects, but that was kind of okay because it was not predictable in a way the main character should have seen what was coming, but the readers could.