2 stars; let me clarify. I did not like this book. I've read my share of YA and I am really sorry to say that this one did not impress me. At all. I appreciate some bits of it though; some moments between Ethan and Lena, that Sixteen Moons song that keeps playing over and over again ... and I guess those very few reasons were why I did not just give this book a one star. But everything else just felt disjointed. I wasn't invested in any of the characters. There was seriously nothing to root for (except maybe for Macon Ravonwood, but he's not even the main character, and shines only at the end). And the book was soooooo hard to get through. I had to really push myself to finish it. Now that I have, I doubt that I'll continue the series. Maybe if the movie adaptation turns out to be amazing and it looks like it will (hope so, for the writers' sake) because so far it has pretty impressive casting. But based on the book alone? Nuh-uh.