Rating: 2/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 When Faye was only eleven years old, her and her friend Christian were taken and forcefully given a drug called Heam, due to Faye's father being caught in some bad business. The drug is said to show you heaven, but some people apparently see hell. While Faye saw hell and came back with the noticeable chest scars of a Heam addict, Christian didn't come back at all. After her mother kicks her out at the sight of the scars, a man named Gazer takes her in and shows her how to defend herself. Faye spends her days learning to fight so that she can take revenge on the men that ruined her life and killed her best friend. However, a man named Chael shows up, somehow knowing more than he should about Faye's life, and attempts to convince her that maybe revenge isn't what's best. 
 I'm very relieved that I was finally able to finish this book. I was reading this book for Battle of the Books, which is (view spoiler)[ a book club/competitive group similar to a trivia contest but based on a set of ten books. Questions include identifying what details belong to a certain book, or answering specific questions about a specific book. (hide spoiler)] I started this book a long time ago, then I put it down for about 2 and a half months because it didn't interest me at all. It's sat on my shelf all this time without being touched. Since the competition is in May, I thought that maybe I should finish this up. I was warned that this book would be a bit of a mess, so I wasn't too surprised when things were all over the place. 
 My biggest issue with this book was that things just didn't make sense. They weren't explained at all. We know Heam is a drug, but how does it actually do what it does? What causes it? What are people actually seeing? People are skeptical and say it's just imagination, but there's no real answer to it. Also, (view spoiler)[ how was it possible Christian could come back into another body? It would seem more plausible if there was anything else paranormal in this book, but there was nothing abnormal besides the Christian thing. He was basically invulnerable, but he could "die" to Heam being injected in him? How could he sense her pain, or whatever he claimed to be able to do? The lack of explanation annoyed me to no end. I also suspected that Chael was really Christian for a while, so it didn't surprise me that it was him. It just made no sense. (hide spoiler)] 
 I didn't like how everyone treated Faye. I know it's a society where Heam addicts are looked down upon, but she's treated like naive trash even by the people who apparently care about her. Everyone is throwing her desire for revenge back in her face, like making her angry and defensive of her wishes is going to change anything. Calling her stupid for her beliefs wasn't going to change anything either. I can understand wanting to make her see sense, but I couldn't see why sitting down and talking with her rather than taunting her by calling her stupid and reckless would help. 
 Overall, I didn't go in expecting too much and I didn't get too much in return. While it was interesting in places, it frustrated me how much of what happened wasn't explained whatsoever, and we're made to accept everything for what it is. It becomes a mess somewhere around the middle but it recovers into something that sort of makes sense before long. It was a strange read, to say the least. I don't really thing I recommend it, since too much is unexplained for it to be too enjoyable.