I'm just going to say it, just read Shadow and Bone instead. I liked some scenes with the love interest when he stopped being an asshole, which was a little too late in the book for my liking. Basically he's like Brigan in the beginning of Fire for a little too long. 
 Okay, this book is all the boring parts of Shadow and Bone, the first five minutes of Anastasia and all the unpleasant drama of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy. 
 If I can stomach the problems with Enclave enough to read the sequel, I can follow this series. It does have potential. 
 but there are 8 million characters and half of them have the same names so you forget if she hates Alexander Georgei or George Alexander. and the plot was a million different types of vampires, and, "oh, no, they're not those types of vampires, they're this type of vampires." 
 The author also makes the mistake of writing about real people who existed in the Russian imperial court. I didn't fact-check this. Nicholas was a real guy who got shot in the face. I vaguely know my Russian history. Stop judging me. But the most accurate thing about these people is the incredible amounts of incest. Katerina is related to 95% of the characters in this book. Everyone is cousins. Everyone is making out with their cousins. And this is the only historically accurate part. Except if you really think all Montenegrin people are vampires (racist?). I couldn't get why she didn't just have them be Romanian. We were all thinking it. Come on. 
 The Montenegrins are power-hungry villains because they are evil and that's all we know about them. paper-thin villains with paper-thin motivations. Yet Katya still spends time with them and lets them drag her around, all the while thinking how untrustworthy they are. Girl. Enough. 
 The romance was flat. I liked George as a character but their chemistry was...wait, did they even like each other? I couldn't tell, except for when they suddenly say they love each other. Huh. good for them. 
 Danilo, a character that could have been like an awesome vampire Gaston was so, so underwhelming. there was not effort to make him sexy, he was just pushy and boring then suddenly *magic* OH WAIT HOT DAMN I SHOULD MARRY HIM. I mean, we watch her fall for every trick in the book, yet never tell the trustworthy people anything that could help them help her. She was too gullible. And her powers didn't seem too powerful if other people were raising the dead. 
 This book feels lazy. There were some great developments that could have happened but instead we have a really complicated plot and underdeveloped characters. A lot of lost potential. 
 I personally like all the Balls and dancing and dresses and pretty and shiny. This is what I went in the book hoping for. I kind of got it.... not really. Very underwhelming.