its quite amazing for a start off of a brilliant series. I would recommend reading this and then straight away reading the second because the second just blew my mind. I loved the whole cyborg cinder thing, it really caught me. Don't get thrown off with the whole 'fairy tell re-telling', because yes it is a fairy tell re-telling but its so much more. The ending was so captivating and just made me wanna pick up the second book right away. I highly recommend this series to anyone, even if you have a slight phobia to sci-fi just pick it up because this may change your opinion of science fiction forever. 
 4 stars.