Man. This was one of those books that I KNEW was going to be good. It had good reviews, the premise sounded good, the cover was nice...I just KNEW that this was going to be a good one. 
 Except it wasn't. I was so disappointed. It wasn't BAD necessarily, just lackluster. The characters were nothing special. The plot was ok but there just wasn't any spark to it. The author kept trying to force a love triangle that just wasn't working. There was one big twist that should have been clever, but it just left me horribly confused. And to top it all off, nothing was accomplished by the end of the book. Like with Lark Rising, another semi-recent read, there was an awful lot of "getting there" but no climax once they reached their destination. 
 It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't memorable either. I won't be following the rest of the series.