ok i'm going to try to start actually doing reviews on the books i read so here goes. this is the 2nd holly black book that i've read. i read the darkest part of the forest and absolutely loved it and i heard she has another faerie book coming out next year that is set in the same universe as tdpotf and this series so i thought i would give it a try. 
 while i didn't enjoy this nearly as much as tdpotf i still thought it was an enjoyable book. i saw a lot of bad reviews saying it was rushed and poorly written and just a bunch of tropes thrown together and while i guess i can see where those people are coming from i still think it is a very enjoyable book if you enjoy modern faerie stories. 
 i also think it's important to remember that this was black's first published book and was written almost 15 years ago so you kind of need to take a minute and put things in perspective if you are judging this after reading her later books. all in all it was pretty enjoyable for what it was and i've already started on the 3rd book in the series [skipping #2 bc #3 is the direct sequel to this for some bizarre reason] so apparently it did something right.