Can someone please do me a favor? When an amazing book series such as this is NOT on my TBR, I need you to smack me. I bought this book on a whim a few months ago since it had great ratings and was only $1.99, at the time I had no idea it was being made into a movie let alone an amazing book series. From the very first page I was hooked and heavily invested. I ached with Ruby, I swooned with her over her slow budding romance with Liam, and most of all I cried for her. I cried by Chubs, Zu, Liam, all the kids of East River, all the injustice in their world. Alexandra Bracken broke me, then steadily pieced me back together with the flickers of hope and the dreams these children carried with them. Hope for a better tomorrow, a better future for all children. It seemed at every turn Rudy and the fang were met with one hardship after another and I was so, deeply, terribly, saddened by their crushing guilt and the weight they carried on their shoulders. 
 No spoilers, but this book was amazing and I instantly fell head first into the second book. The ending left me in tears and I feel like I just found a new favorite author.