After actually reading this book, I totally understand what all the hype was about! When I had received the paperback in the mail from Disney, I was super excited and couldn't wait to actually dive right in! I may have even looked like this..... 
 What I liked..... 
 I loved that this book was so gritty. Ms. Bracken holds nothing back and really tries to give the reader the perspective of what poor Ruby's life is really like. The writing is beautiful and I honestly loved every minute of it. 
 What I loved.... 
 The traveling! Everyone knows how much I love road trip books:) This was a road trip and then some! The storyline is very unique and different that I was completely mesmerized while reading. I loved the fact that the kids all had different types of powers. I also enjoyed the classifications into colors. The kids were classified in the camp according to their powers, that depended on what color they were assigned. 
 The characters... 
 I, very much enjoyed Ruby to the fullest extent! She is so brave and actually very heart-broken. The things that the kids had to deal with in the camps were appalling and she actually comes out pretty unscathed for the most part. The fact that she could hold it together makes her an awesome character and teen! I also (of course), developed a major crush on Liam. What a sweetheart! He was amazing toward Ruby right from the beginning. He basically had this "no questions asked" mentality and made Ruby feel safe. 
 The Cover... 
 So when I pulled this book from the package, I immediately was like "WTH? They sent me a used book?" I showed it to my daughter and she said the exact same thing! LOL, but, it was just the way the cover was. There is likes barbed wire around the edging on the front and it literally makes the cover look used and battered. Once I realized exactly what it was all about, it made me appreciate the cover even more! 
 The ending... 
 The end of this book literally left me speechless!!! There were tears in my eyes, I'm such a sap, I had all kinds of feels going on! The paperback version has the first chapter of the next book and I honestly could not bring myself to read it without having the finished copy right in front of me. I knew that once I started, I would not want to stop. 
 In conclusion... 
 I can't wait to get a copy of the next book, Never Fade! Never Fade was just published in October and I hear it is even better than the first book! I don't know how that could possibly be?