** spoiler alert ** 
 Not gonna lie, I read the first third breathlessly, mostly for Reed and Zee and Buns. I don't what happened to her, but Evie got possessed by Bella Swan and I spent most of it wanting to knock her upside the head to get some sense into her. Even then, there were some - tad repetitious, yes, but totally swoon-worthy Reed scenes. 
 But then.... then... well, actually, then two things happened. 
 Thing the First: Evie convinces Russell to run away from the group and make their own little Dynamic Duo out of the Fabulous Five-some. And this they do "to help protect the other three." 
 THAT is your plan, Genevieve? Take the TWO WEAKEST LINKS out of the equation and trek off into godforsaken places on your own instead of STAYING WITH THE OTHER THREE who, in case you HADN'T NOTICED are in every way, shape and form STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU? 
 I ask you again: THAT is your plan? 
 But you know what, thing the first I could forgive. She was doin' it for love, and people do the impossible for love. 
 There was, however, the small matter of Thing the Second: Bartol gave the entire middle third of the book to Russell to narrate. Gawd help us ahll, y'all. Forcing me to read (aka speed-skimmed) an entire third of the book with that boy's misguided diction? That, Bartol, I cannot forgive.