I forced myself to finish this today because I just wanted to get it over with. It wasn't good. 
 The concept was good and actually the love story is quite sweet and the best part of this story 
 But everything else is very bad. And it takes a lot of place... 
 Zero world building on top of characters with no personality. Or horrible ones (my god, Mare in the first part of the book was ridiculous). I guess Mare and Deanna had a bit of development but everyone else was just flat and especially the prince... We have 2 scenes with him, no idea what he is like or anything... 
 And other people kept dying but it was more to provide dramatic scenes than anything. It sometimes made no sense. 
 But in general the politics were handled very badly, it was all very simplistic and stupid and of course as always our main characters who are 16 don't ever talk with the adults about anything because you know, they are all stupid anyway. 
 It was all just so predictable and easy and some time it didn't make sense and Mare was a horrible person half the time, just criticizing everything but then just contradicting herself on the next page by criticizing someone with the same opinion she had 1 page ago. 
 Anyway. I'm disappointed but the love story was nice and that's why this is not only 1 star.