Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review. 
 Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 Holy smoke! Another book containing a love triangle reaching 4 Voodoos! 
 So, being completely honest, as I've promised to be, I've had this book on my shelf possibly since it came out. So why did I request it from Netgalley I hear you ask. Easy. It's one of my 101 read it or lose it books for this year and I thought that if I got it from Netgalley it'd force me to read it. Which it did. I'd forgotten about the love triangle till I re read the blurb before I started it which knocked me a little, but having just read and enjoyed the first two of the Talon saga by Julie Kagawa, I ploughed right in. This, to me, seems more of a teen/younger YA book because the foreshadowing is not in anyway subtle. In fact the foreshadowing was so blatant that I threatened to put the book down if (when) it happened. It happened, but by that point I totally didn't care. I was enjoying the characters and the world. 
 Ah the world, so well planned out and so MYSTERIOUS!!!!!!! Just what are the various groups of rebels after? 
 Also, for some reason, I kept thinking that the Castes were living in sections, like the districts in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, but they're not, they're all intermingled, which I liked and they weren't completely rigid, you can marry up or down which was also interesting. I look forward to learning more. 
 So yes, love triangle...I have to admit I auto-disliked Aspen, mainly because he was guy #1 and therefore in the way of guy #2. (I'm with Johnny Depp on this one, if you loved person #1 enough you wouldn't have fallen for #2, so choose them) This is perhaps one of the acceptable (HA!) forms of love triangle, you'll have to read it to find out what I mean cause I'm not giving that away for ya. Lets be honest though, we know where this is going, we've looked at the titles of books 2-4!! 
 And onto the characters. Well, I was finding it confusing as to who was who, I kept reading America as Amanda and Lucy as Lily. I was pretty sure there were extra people in this story, thank you dyslexia, but I didn't bother too much and I kept pulling myself up on it. 
 I liked the Queens sister. And America (not Amanda) was actually quite sensible. I 100% agree with her decision at the end of the book. Which, unlike the start of the book, didn't feel forced. While it may stretch some things out, I don't feel that it was designed specifically for that. It was the perfect choice to make. I hope to like the queen too, but we haven't seen much of her yet. Hopefully in the next book! 
 I was glad I enjoyed this book as someone I follow on Instagram loves the series. This is certainly a series I'll be collecting. And as to the cover! Well, super pretty! Except for the hair. What is with that? It's meant to be RED! But oh well. 
 I can't wait to read the next one! Unfortunately I've not yet been accepted/declined for The Elite (book 2) on Netgalley, but I have been lucky enough to be accepted to read The One (book 3). I'll just have to wait and see while I read some other Netgalley books I have waiting. It's going to be hard thinking of other stories with this one waiting for a conclusion in my head.