It took me a while to decide whether I wanted to read this book or not. But now that I did, I'm glad. 
 I'm not really sure what it was about it that I liked so much, but everything just kind of worked. Everything just kind of flowed together in a way that wasn't choppy or unbelievable. 
 First off, I liked all the characters. At first I thought Aria was going to be dependent on Perry pretty much every step of the journey. But I mean, if you just got dumped in the wilderness outside of a pod you've spent your whole life in, wouldn't you feel a little confused and hopeless too? She started to understand towards the end. You know..how to function. 
 I did like Perry too. So often in a lot of young adult novels you see these OHEMGEEEEEE HOT HE'S A GOD completely flawlessly perfect male love interest characters. What I liked very much about Perry was that he was kind of different. Even though he was still supposed to be gorgeous in a hot savage man kind of way, he was very much flawed in a way that still wasn't idiotic. 
 I also really liked Roar of course. Who wouldn't like a hot guy named Roar with an attitude like he had? 
 Anyway, I think another part I liked about it was the setting. There's something very intriguing about the idea of the idea of the girl leaving a place she's spent her whole life in and finding that outside of it is much much better. How Aria wants to understand what roses smell like, or how the rocks are, and what it would be like seeing the sun for the first time. And something about these woods was kind of enchanting. Not quite sure what it was. 
 Also, the romance. I liked it. And I am very very picky with my romance usually. I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I can use one of those all-consuming sappy romance-attack books. But this was just lovely. I don't want to say that it was and understated romance because it really wasn't. It was just brief. It was sweet though. It was kind of cute seeing them go from hating each other to being allies. And I kind of liked that instead of the usual, girls see's boy and immediately thinks he's gorgeous. It was kind of the other ways around. It was first in Perry's point of view that you see him kind of notice her as a girl, and it's him that you see falling for Aria before she does for him I think. 
 Overall, I was teetering between giving the book four or five stars. But I still feel that it was lacking something that's requires for it to be a five star.