Okay, just came back from the movie, and I finished this book last week. I'd have to say both earned no more than 3 stars. 
 I'll review the book first off. I went into this one thinking it would be great because the movie trailer looked so awesome, but I have to say, the depper I got into the book I found myself thinking more and more often.."okay, when does this get good?" It could be extremely slow at times, and when the action finally did come it wasn't as great as I anticipated. 
 The present tense POV actually didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, though. I'm actually growing to like present tense, reading and writing. So that wasn't a problem. But the first person POV, Idk if it was because of the narrator, John, or what, but a lot of the time it seemed like moments were just being listed. At some points a whole week, or even a month was summed up in one page. This also ties into John's relationship with Sarah. We didn't get to see her character progress or how she learned to love John, well, at all. A lot of the book consisted of summing up the facts of Lorien and John's training(zzzzzzz). Though, speaking of the training, John's only 'family' Henri, was probably one of the few things I actually thouroughly liked about this book. I'm not sure why I liked him so much, but Idk, sometimes I liked him more than John, honestly. 
 Okay spoiler time, about the ending: (view spoiler)[WHAT THE FUCK?!? Excuse my language, but seriously..WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?? I thoroughly dispised the ending of this novel. It's lucky it got as many as three stars for the stunts it pulled. 2 things specifically. 2. CLIFF HANGER!?? What the hell? And the second book isn't even about the same people! And as for number 1: WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU KILL HENRI!???!!! WHYYYY? Did you Want to torture me author people? If not for that, I might've given the book a better review, but that...SMH..UNFORGIVABLE!!! (hide spoiler)] Okay, I've vented now. 
 Now as for the movie. I can't decide if I like it or not, honestly. My judgement is impaired by 2 of my fav actors Alex Pettyfer and Timothy Olyphant being in the same movie. It strayed a bit from the original text, but what movie doesn't? At least here we could see more of a relationship progression between John and Sarah(Btw, way to original names), but this took away from John and Henri's relationship. They seemed very close in the book, but the movie they hardly talked at all, and they made Henri look like the bad guy! *glares* Henri's my favorite, and always will be. 
 Oh, and speaking of Henri..(view spoiler)[GAAAAAAAAHHHH!! It's bad enough he had to die at all, but HE DIED EARLIER THAN HE WAS SUPPOSED TO!! WHERE WAS THE HEALING STONE? THERE FUCKING WASN'T ONE, THAT' WHERE!! (hide spoiler)] 
 The effects in the movie were pretty good I guess, just average for this day and age. Oh and Six, Idk she was more appealing in the book, i the movie she was a little bitchy. 
 Overall, 3 stars, I guess I like it *shrugs* honestly if you have your heart set on one of the two, just see the movie, the book drags. 
 And a note to the authors *Death Glare* You Know What You Did. Unforgivable.