YA copywriters are amazing creatures. I am so often drawn in by the shiny blurb on the back of a book, promising me excitement! Adventure! An awesome heroine! 
 Like a moth to a flame, I am suckered in every damn time. 
 I'm telling you, these copywriters aren't as well-paid as they should be. Sometimes, they're more skilled than the actual writer themselves. If I can get suckered into paying money for some crapshoot of a book, and I have been one far too many times than I can count, then they've done their job. 
 And boy, have they done their job for this book. I'm not calling this particular book crappy, it's not that terrible; the concept exceeds the execution. I didn't find myself drawn into any of the characters, and I find the world building tedious and confusing. It was far too deep into the book that we finally got a 2-sentence summary of what exactly happened to make this world the way it was. A good quarter of the way into the book, I was still confused as to the concept of the Fade. The blurb promised things the book never delivered. Anne-Marie was an insignificant part of the book. Marina is not seen so much as a hope for humanity, but "Fade-bait," and generally despised for seemingly costing many lives in her rescue from the Dark. 
 I didn't have any particular attachment to any of the characters. We again have the trope of the well-meaning but annoying and bumbling best friend, Anne-Marie. The gruff but well-meaning and secretly sensitive main love interest, Tobin. The mysterious boy/Fade who could potentially be part of the love triangle, Rue. Nobody had any real character. The book was mostly action and plot-driven (and not a particularly engaging plot), and not so much character-based, and that was where it failed for me. 
 The big reveal in the book was a big problem for me as well, along with the consequent choices Marina made. I can't reveal it because it's the major crux of the book, but I found the actions Marina made subsequent to discovering the truth to be contradictory. A few months, that's how long she has been inside the encampment, and barely a few weeks into knowing, much less liking Tobin, and that's what she chose? That's not the actions of a heroine I could like. 
 I've read that this book has been optioned out for a movie by Universal, and frankly, I can't comprehend it. I had a hard enough time reading and following the plot, I don't see how this would interpret into a movie at all. But these days, we have such films as The Great Gatsby IN FREAKING 3D...so why not? 
 Ah, the world we live in...