2.5/5 Stars 
 The last time I read this book I was 13 years old and really enjoyed the gritty, harrowing story of our protagonist. Now, coming back to it as a 21 year old reader, I find it to be severely lackluster and underwhelming. 
 I felt this book, though quick in nature due to the verse poetry formatting of the novel, dragged on quite a bit. So often while I was reading this book, I would look at the page count and ask myself "why on Earth is this book this long?!" 
 A lot of aspects in this story felt very unnecessary and a vast majority of it felt like filler to a convoluted plot. I found this book to be exceptionally disappointing this time around, but I do still plan on finishing out this trilogy.