Actual Rating: 3.5 stars 
 Review: 
 Characters: So this book is told from the third person POV of multiple characters trapped in this alien zoo-like cage. The closest thing we get to a main protagonist is Cora, a young senator's daughter with a dark past, and for the most part I liked her, though she had her aggravating moments that would really piss me off. The other characters I initially liked, I thought they were a great diverse cast of characters and a grew to care about them, until their personalities seemed to change in unnatural ways. It's all explained away, but it really felt like the author adjusted their actions to fit her story. 
 Romance: From the description I was expecting, and hoping, for a singular romance, but of course there is a love triangle in this series. I wouldn't have minded it if it didn't appear as though the author was building up the romance, which I really enjoyed, between Cora and her "secondary love interest" Lucky, only for that to be completely ruined in favor of the borderline stalker romance between Cora and her captor Cassian. The other characters also experience some romance, and even when these characters got extremely aggravating I did like their own respective romances. 
 World-Building: The world-building was the best part about this book. There was so much potential, and the eco-system in which the rag tag group of characters wakes up sounds kind of awesome, though more for a vacation or a voluntary movement, not being kidnapped and forced into. It was interesting to learn about why the kid were taken and the other sci-fi aspects that surround this world. I'm interested to see how this world will develop going forward, especially given the things we find out toward the end. 
 Predictability: So I have to say that I didn't really predict much in this book. In fact I there were a few times when I thought I had predicted something, only for it to turn out and be a lie further down the road. It's weird what this book does, it almost mirrors the environment the characters are in, where it seems safe and healthy and predictable, but then it screws with your mind. 
 Ending: So the ending is the thing that really screws with your mind. Things that you thought were true change, and oddly enough the characters change as well, not in a "they developed now they're different" kind of way but a more stunted and abrupt kind of way. The end really helps set up how the next book may go, enough that I think I may have deciphered the title of the next installment already. 
 Rating: 
 For the first quarter of this novel I really enjoyed it, then things got crazy and aggravating, and while I'm pretty sure I'll continue with the series, this will probably be far from my favorite of the trilogy.