This is definitely one of those books you want to smack yourself for not reading sooner. It was great from beginning to end. I loved how Adelina both loved and feared her powers. She grew from a scared neglected girl to someone who knew she had the power to make others cower before her. I loved most of the daggers. Enzo was my kind of guy. Dangerous, mysterious, powerful. I never liked Raffaele because I knew how he secretly felt and knew it would break Adelina's heart when she found out. Lucent, Gemma, and Michel were great and I couldn't really blame them for how they felt in the end. Dante was always scum and he got what he deserved. I loved that this book had a dark element to it from how the malfettos were treated to the darkness that brewed inside of Adelina, to, of course, the darkness that is, Teren. He was a psycho, but at the same time you knew he'd been manipulated into hating himself and other malfettos. The ending completely broke my heart. I did not see a lot of things coming in this book, the ending most of all. Moving on to book 2.