I liked it. Really liked it. Who doesn't like a story, about a bunch of kids, busting out of a secular society and grasping their freedom? The sequel is a must now. The whole cult thing...it was pretty stereotypical. If you told me to list things a cult do or has (a power-hungry leader, who enjoys all the trimmings, that none of his subjects have, working in the fields all day, religion as a factor, there's a big "reckoning" in the horizon)...none of it surprised me. I learnt nothing new about cult-life, that I didn't know before. The only thing that came close, was finding out some key members in the cult, were also are pillars of the community on the "outside" too...like police officers etc etc. Double-life anyone, lol? It was almost tame. Eden wasn't preyed upon once, which is something I've come to expect in these things...I'm surprised Hector had the patience to wait till she was 18. Aren't leaders like Hector, closet pedos too? Though for my sake, I'm glad we didn't have to read any of that. Made the story more sweet, less horrifying. 
 Calder and Eden have a very sweet love, their first, so it was nice to see. But I couldn't connect with it THAT emotionally, because I'm a hardened cynic, and I just want to see how the sequel pans out...will their love hold out in the "real" world? Because that's how I saw Eden and Calder's world. Sheltered. Microscopic. They fell in love with each other, because there was not much else to do in that place, that was beautiful... 
 It was inevitable really. 
 But they are two sweethearts, and I can't wait to reacquaint with them! Xander came in just the nick of time, and Eden's lost someplace, sobbing her eyes out...