i found it abit difficult to get into this book. 
 We meet our characters Gray and Blaine in Claysoot. No-one knows how the village ever started, who built the giant wall around the village or why all the boys get heisted on their 18th Birthday. After Gray's brother Blaine is heisted, he is lost, he has no more family and very few friends. He finally gets slated to Emma and they form a friendship of sorts until Gray finds a shocking discovery that will alter his preception on Claysoot, on the heists and on his own family. 
 There is action, romance throughout the book with dystopian thrown in for good measure. We are also left with what we could more or less expect in the second book in this series.