This is probably actually closer to a 2 1/2 for me, and I'll probably check out the next installment. However, this one took me a while to get through despite how fast of a read it is when you get going. I never felt really immersed in the world, and didn't really feel all the stakes of the world. The idea of who we're fighting or why is not something I feel extremely invested in at this point. For the length of the book, I don't really have an ending sensation of all that much happening. Neither did I feel like I really had a handle on Paige before going on this adventure with her. I lost all concept of passage of time within the novel; the end listed much longer than I thought the events had set up. Maybe the publisher's hype played into what I was expecting from this novel, but for something that had so much promotion power behind it, I was expecting very specific and clear world. The potential is there, and that potential will carry me over to the next book.