My Reaction in a Nutshell: 
 DIE MALEK DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! 
 The Long Version: 
 This book was weird. And by weird, I mean parts of it I really enjoyed and other's made me nauseated. I'm going to be very blunt and straight forward in this review: There is a master/slave relationship, hints of Stockholm Syndrome, abusive relationship (physically and mentally), and most likely this book will be incredibly triggering to SA, R, and domestic abuse survivors. That is the part of the book that is nauseating. If you read reviews of this book you will see a long list of people pointing out all of the problematic parts of this book (namely the trigger warnings I listed above). 
 Now, I heard about this book when I was on Twitter and saw Epic Reads Love Lines (a post showing the most "heated" YA books). Based on that you would think everything would be consensual, but with the master/slave physical/mental abuse going on, it's not. Honestly, this book surprised me that it is in the YA section. It is dark. Like, really fucking dark. 
 There is some instalove going on in this book, but I actually liked it. For some reason, to me it made sense why that instalove occurred (view spoiler)[when their chiaan mixes on the dance floor I totally knew they were meant to be together (hide spoiler)]. Don't worry, the instalove isn't with the abusive prick, but with an arrogant revolutionary instead. 
 Basically, I liked the concept of the book, but personally every scene with Malek made me cringe. Which is even worse because Malec is one of my favorite ships! So now the ship name has been tainted by an abusive dick who deserves to die but fucking can't. 
 This book was hard to rate. On one hand, I liked Nalia's interactions with Raif, Zanari, and Lelia, but I hated every moment with Malek. I loved how there was no girl-on-girl hate. I liked seeing Haran's POV, but the book ended up feeling repetitive with the same conversations and scenes repeating themselves (see what I did there?). And Haran wasn't the only one being repetitive, Nalia and Raif kept having the same discussion again and again. Plus the author only seems capable of describing people's skin in relation to food???? I mean, I love to eat as much as the next person, but I sure as hell don't think "cinnamon" and "nutmeg" when I see someone's skin tone (okay, I can't actually remember if she described people using those particular spices, but you get my point). 
 I guess this book is more of a 2.5/5 rating (rating is subject to change after I have some more time to really think it over). It shows promise. It's dark. I didn't mind the instalove. But it was repetitive. It was abusive. And I almost DNFed it a couple of times because of it being slow, repetitive, and abusive. Overall, if you want to give this book a shot, then check it out from your library (like I did), don't buy it. 
 ***TRIGGER WARNINGS: abusive relationship, threat of R, SA, war, mind control, drugging a person, death, murder