Having loved "Red Queen", I expected to really like this. But it honestly let me down a bit. I really found myself bored with this novella. I found Coriane interesting in "Red Queen" but her backstory was just...meh. Maybe I'm just not used to reading novella's, but I felt that the pacing toward the end was way to fast. One paragraph she's married, the next she has a son. It was just too fast. The only reason I give it two stars is because it's part of the "Red Queen" series which is now one of my all time favorite YA series. Otherwise, I would have given it one star. :/