I must say that this dystopian world was definitely unique. 
 Radiation that caused people to fuse to whatever they were touching at the time? Doll heads for hands, people fused together, children that fused to their mothers and could never grow up? Pretty gruesome. 
 Everything that is seen - the deformities, the way the military force treats them, just makes my heart ache for the 'wretches' and the tragedy they had to endure. 
 "We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them." 
 The bigger, background plot was interesting. We have the typical segregation 'post-apocolyptically'. Privileged and the not so privileged. But there is a bit of a bigger plot going on, which we slowly discover. Just not in much detail... 
 The thing is, while the overall background story is quite interesting, the plot following the characters lacks some direction and I never felt too invested in the characters. 
 Which is a problem for me because I am a character driven reader. 
 A good read, an interesting world, but I am not really excited to read the next book. 
 "Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value"