It seems I'm giving more and more books only one star, and that makes me sad. Especially books like this one, that I was really, really looking forward to reading. 
 First, I'll say this: it took me over a week to actually get into ICONS, and even then, I spent so much time being confused and questioning everything, I just...didn't enjoy it at all. Nothing that happened made sense to me, and in the end, I still don't understand anything that happened--or why. 
 That's not how I like my books to go. 
 I want to fall into the characters' world and into them and that just didn't happen for me here. I didn't feel connected to anything or anyone and toward the end, I just wanted it to be over so I could move on to the next book in my pile. 
 *** ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ***