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 Update 1/23/16: 
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 I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review 
 I've never read a book by Dan Wells before, but I have had a couple of his novels on my TBR list for awhile. So when I was given the opportunity to read this novel, I jumped at the chance. With an interesting premise and an awesome cover, I was excited to get started on this book. Unfortunately, this wasn't a winner for me. While the idea that Dan Wells had was great, there were many aspects of the story that weren't developed well enough. In all honesty, this seemed like a first draft of the story, with many needed drafts still to come. By about the halfway point in this book, I was bored out of my mind and really didn't care about any of the characters anymore. This is always a sad thing for me, and it makes getting through the rest of the book I'm reading difficult to get through. 
 The main problem with this story was that it was bogged down with too many details. Understandably, there needed to be detailed descriptions of the world that Dan Wells created as it is the future with a lot of different and innovative technology. However, where as some authors would be able to simplify the technological descriptions, Dan Wells used paragraphs upon paragraphs to describe this technology and it became extremely boring, extremely fast. Throughout the beginning (and even during the rest of the book), there would be pages upon pages of scenes where info was just dumped on us. I personally don't like when authors do this because it becomes tedious and feels like they were trying to make the book longer. Even with all of this description however, things were still a bit confusing. 
 The other big problem I had with this book was the characters. There were way too many side characters to keep track of, and not only that but they also were all the same to me. Every single side character acted and spoke the same way, had the same personality, and were not memorable in the slightest. Most of them weren't even necessary for the story, and could have been edited out. The main character herself, Marisa, wasn't terrible, but she did get on my nerves occasionally. However, I never could connect with her at anytime during the story, and she seemed a bit flat to me. 
 I will admit that I ended up skipping around in this book after the halfway point because I just wanted to finish the story. And even though I skipped around, I still was able to follow the story, which showed to me that this book needed some majoring editing. Ultimately, this book just wasn't my cup of tea, but I'm still willing to check out other novels from Dan Wells. I can't say I would recommend this novel, but you might end up enjoying it much more than I did. 
 Happy reading :)