This wasn't the greatest book ever written, but still entertaining. Not entirely creative, but I still enjoyed reading it. 
 Mare wasn't the most well-developed main character, but again, I wasn't truly expecting that much. The romance seemed kind of thrown in there just to placate young readers' "need" for romance/love triangles in every single YA book they read. The betrayal at the end wasn't really as shocking as some people had painted it to be, in my opinion. 
 Again, it was fairly enjoyable... I probably won't continue with the series.