It's risky business, for me, to pick up a YA book these days. I have been let down so much, frustrated with the let's sugar coat everything because it's YA and treat young adults like they can't handle it- underestimating them, and the downright copying of ideas. But balls was this a damn good book! I read the rave reviews about it and said, alright, let's do this. If I swore off YA books then I'd miss out on ones like this. I loved it. I had trouble putting it down. I loved the grit, how she kept it real and often disturbing (because hello world in ruins, do you expect things to not be disturbing?), the character building, hell the characters. It also had different elements for me and I'm curious Ee's inspiration for writing it. It is paranormal in nature (which also angels are not normally my cup of tea but this shed a whole new light on angels) but there were spurts here and there that reminded me of some good sci-fi and fantasy stories. Such a pleasure to read this was and it was so visual. I remember thinking, gosh this would make a great film. Then I just looked it up and it has been optioned! Wahooo! I will DEFINITELY be reading the next book.