5 Words: rebellion, enslavement, power, love, family. 
 This book has been on my radar since the first ARCs were released into the blogosphere. Everyone had something to say about it. So I have been seeing it a lot over the past year. But I held off reading it until my bestie Steph won a copy through goodreads first reads. Then I picked up my copy and we did a buddy read. 
 As usual, we agreed on 5 chapters a day and promptly read 10-15 instead. We have to work a little on this whole sticking to the agreed time-scale for buddy-reads thing. 
 Anyway, the book. 
 There was a reason we shot through it. 
 This was a pretty predictable read, but that was actually one of the good things about it, because when there was a twist that you didn't see coming it was made better by the fact that you'd predicted everything else. 
 I liked the depictions of the social/race systems and felt quite indignant at the slavery. 
 And I really liked how despite there being a bit of romance, that wasn't the whole story. Even if the story focused a little on the romantic relationships, it focused far more on the familial and social relationships, and all of the underlying tension rippling through the whole of society. 
 I really feel that Evangeline could have a story of her own, as she was one of the characters that surprised me a little. I'd love to see why she is the way she is.