Well, I feel like this story could have been really good. As it was though it was stuffed full of ridiculous fake words, had a story that just was dropped on us, we're never really given much information about anything, and the story is very disjointed, jumping from person to person but never staying long enough to give us any insight. 
 I got through it given that it's short and the language is very much geared toward the younger range of YA books but I found that the ending (don't worry, no spoilers) was very much the opposite of the entire rest of the story. I mean, every.single.word that is remotely considered a cuss word is substituted with the word shuck or shank or whatever stupid variation the write could come up with, but yet there's violence and blood drenching the ending. That doesn't mesh. 
 The end of the ending was very predictable and while I understand that it had to be there for the sequel, I feel like it could have been done in much more creative way.