After continually dragging the book along with me, I finally just DNF'd this. This just didn't appeal to me. It wasn't like it was one of those books that was eye-gougingly awful, but it didn't really stick out as far as YA UF novels go. I've gotten a little jaded with YA in general so part of this might be me, but this just seems like it's one of several clones out there. It might get better as the series progresses, but I just couldn't muster the interest to finish the book. I'd probably recommend the first book as a library read just in case.