The writing was good, the main character was not. Adelina was weak. She always "listened" and "embraced" those whispers in her head, never did she say "no", or actually stand up for herself and decide otherwise. Not that people are any different sometimes - people aren't villains, but we all do wrong things at one time or another - which is why pretty much anyone can relate to and understand Adelina. It's kind of creepy, isn't it, how people just have to cross this one line to become a villain? What would happen if someone erased the lines that stops that person from becoming a villain? That some of the villains nowadays aren't really that different from Adelina? This book kind of makes you think. 
 This book was like a bad dream: you can't do anything to change it, yet you're interested.