I'm conflicted about this book. On one hand both the main characters were developed really well, like them or not, they had some serious personal growth and it was fun reading their journey. 
 On the other hand I didn't enjoy the verse style of writing and found it confusing at points since the chapters weren't labeled by character and some chapters had both their thoughts without any acknowledgement that it had changed POV, other than the fact that Nicu's was entirely in broken English, which grated on me. I could maybe understand if it was the dialogue parts but his inner thoughts didn't really need to be sounded out like they were, totally ruined my enjoyment of his chapters. I also missed the descriptions of the characters and their world and everything around them, verse isn't my go to style and I wouldn't say that this book has changed that for me. 
 There was a lot of racism directed at Nicu which was difficult to read sometimes. 
 I hated the ending, it was just so 'what. the. fuck' maybe I'm too much of a sucker for a happy ending, so if you are as well then i'd like to give you a fair warning that you will not find one here. That doesn't mean that you won't enjoy this book though, I would suggest to anyone to give it a try because it's something really different and might open you up to a slightly outside the box style for the YA genre. 
 I can appreciate what the author was trying to do and despite it being enjoyable in parts, I just wasn't crazy about it.