It's so difficult to rate this book! 
 When I was reading it, I felt that angsty I-need-to-know-what-happens-next-now feeling, and every time I put it down I just wanted to pick it straight back up. And then I finished it, was on a 24 hour call so I didn't have time to review it and now I'm bit.... meh. 
 "He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue." 
 Retrospectively I can't tell you why I was so obsessed with reading it.. There is nothing terribly unique about it. Dystopian setting, forced matching - okay in this case it was marrying a stranger. 
 There wasn't too much detail about the dystopian setting... Like nothing really caused me to be outrageously angry, you know? Like in Matched I hated how every aspect of their lives was controlled and watched. In The Hunger Games, well duh. But here, besides the arranged marriages, it's not too obvious. 
 The characters.. Ivy was outspoken but very easily influenced/hoodwinked. Bishop was interesting, he couldn't really be put in a box. But there wasn't really that much detail to the characters that I can say why I liked them. 
 If I had rated this upon finishing it, it would have definitely been a 4. But having had time to reflect, and realising that I have not thought about it since I finished reading it, I am going to have to give it a 3. I will definitely be reading the next book though.