I wish I could say that this was a guilty pleasure. But it was no pleasure. 
 The book is too big for the little story that is happening. If this had been a trilogy, I might have read it to the end. But now I see it's (at least) 5 books?! I don't think I'll make that. 
 The writing is pretty bad. I've started to read only the dialogue, and worst of all - it works. At least 80% of the non-dialogue is superfluous filler. There are other things as well. I know this is a YA book, but does Caine really think YAs are that dumb? For example, when she has a sarcastic dialogue line, she will make sure the next line explains that the last line was sarcasm. I mean, come on. 
 I'm giving it 3 stars, because it is still easy-reading, another flavour to my reading tastes; so it was alright.