Mostly, I did really like this book. It had "the spark." It was kind of addicting. The main character occasionally annoyed me, but for the most part she was alright, though I wanted to slap some sense into her a lot. The world was remarkably original, though it could have been better developed, but concerning the fact that vampire books tend to be the most unrelenting blocks of cliche ever, it was pretty good. Early on in the book, though, I had a few problems with Rose. She just seemed to overplay the "bad girl" element with quotes like these. I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him - barely - so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays. Maybe she is a - pardon my language -badass character who can save herself most of the time, but her disrespect for anything and everything at the beginning of the book got on my nerves. It was also a bit hard to define between flashbacks and the present. 
 Nevertheless, it got better over time, (view spoiler)[ except the part with Victor, which I felt was thoroughly undeveloped and a bit confusing, not to mention his sterotypical villain speech about how he was neglected and all... 
 Why are Slavic bad guys always named Victor/Viktor and the hot guys always named Dimitri/Dmitri? (hide spoiler)] 
 A decent, shallower series I will continue with, to see where it goes, hopefully not to Cliche-land....