I want to throw this book so far away into the dark abyss..... yet I want to cuddle it. Is that possible? 
 Ugghh..... The agony this book turned out to be yet I didn't want to put it down. What is wrong with me? This book seriously without a doubt falls into the second book syndrome. 
 And my god, this whole book was a saga of quotable lines. Forget the storytelling or plot. Every line I read was turning out to be a quote. Everybody likes a good quote now and then but if the whole book is made out of those then I am afraid the story starts to get a little dry. 
 And for the love of god. The author repeated the 'lightening girl' so many times it was getting on my nerve so badly. And also let's not forget about Cal, the readers are aware of his existence beside Mare. Yet she felt the need to remind us time and again about his might, 'the fire prince', 'inferno', 'military genius', and so on and on and on. My qualm is that instead of reminding the readers of his awesome abilities you could have given him some major action instead, which she gave by the way yet the author felt the need to remind us he is fighting beside the MC every fucking page. 
 Cal this. Cal that. Ughh!! I know I know. I get it. And one more 'lightening girl' will seriously jeopardise the relationship I have formed with this series. 
 Now I really liked the addition of Cameron Calore but that too was snuffed out so quickly. 
 And we can never forget, Prince Maven didn't get as much book time as he ought to have got. 
 And Queen Elara, ohh remember my Red Queen review if not click here where (view spoiler)[ I mentioned something about her dying a horrible death, I shouldn't be happy but I am happy. Shameless. But that happened. (hide spoiler)] 
 And what was so original about this series. Nothing. I felt very few things were well thought and given consideration. Other than that I felt there was a lots of The Young Elites, An Ember in the Ashes similarities. Coincidences, I think not. 
 The plot was not that great really. It was them running around collecting the 'newbloods' people like Mare so they can be saved in time before Maven got to them and in time train them and they could be used to fight against the silvers. The whole book was really Mare's turmoil of who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do. 
 I enjoyed this book. I seriously did yet at the same time I was also disappointed that it didn't stand up to the hype. Now I will peacefully wait for the third book, in no sort of hurry, because I worry that I will be majorly disappointed by what is going to happen in the final book of the series. 
 Sadly I won't recommend this to anyone. Read it at your own peril.