updated 8/30/13 
 No. Just no. Sometimes I convince myself a free supernatural, YA, self-published novel can't be as bad as the last one. Or I tell myself it will be like going through all those manuscripts at a publishing house. Or I have nothing else to read while waiting for a sandwich. Regardless, the adventure ends in me seeing it through because I see how inexplicably high the ratings for such works are. But you can save yourself from this fate. 
 Gemma is an outcast at school. We know this as readers because a typical mean girl character exists simply to demonstrate that Gemma is an outcast in school. But this has never bothered her before because she hasn't really felt emotion (which, you know, we're just expected to go along with because that's completely normal and does not really need more thought or explanation). But wait, Gemma sees a hot guy and now she feels tingles (I might have added a star if I thought this was in any way attempting to say something larger about adolescents and emotions and sexual awakening, but nope seems to be a handy dandy plot device pure and simple). But wait, the hot guy is strangely rude to Gemma, but they're forced to interact because they sit next to each other in class. This is nothing like Twilight because we are in astronomy not biology. Then a bunch of stuff that is even more implausible happens. 
 The characterization in this is shallow and horrendous. The plotting is easy and sloppy. We move from point A to point B quickly and conveniently. Gemma seems to accept new information with relative ease despite the fact her internal monologue attempts to say otherwise. The voice attempts to copy "normal" teen speech patterns, down to phrases in the vein of "uhhhh....no" within the normal narrative. As so much else isn't explored or flushed out in depth, it reads as just another symptom of shallow creation. Additionally the world the author attempts to create comes off feeling like a vague outline while simultaneously being cluttered by a great deal of supernatural creatures that seem thrown in just 'cause. Some may claim they're part of the plot, but only because they've been declared as such. They play no actual role in what is going on. I felt no stakes because I had no investment in anyone. This book just would have greatly benefitted from another draft and some added depth.