I did start this book quite a while back, and I don't remember being enthralled by it, though I have no idea where I got up to. 
 It is the cover that really made me want to try it! Like, damnnnn. 
 The reason that I have marked this book as 'no for me' is because it feels too ... similar. People have compared this to 
 Red Rising 
 but I have never even read the premise of that so, whatever. No, I am going to just say that I think that the premise of this seems too similar to the premise of two other books I have read: 
 Shadow and Bone 
 and 
 The Young Elites 
 . This I actually mentioned in my Young Elites review. 
 Basically: 
 * An allegedly normal girl from the 'lower heirarchy' in whatever setting the book is in. 
 * Finds out she has some superspecialmagicdangerous power. 
 * This ensures that she moves up in rank, to some group of people who are 'like her', where she can finally be herself ... 
 * Or not. This group shows that it is not actually all what it is hyped up to be. 
 * There is always also the younger sibling or the best friend that does not join them and who they just cannot leave behind! 
 Anyway, that is just what I see, and to be honest I was not a HUGE fan of the other two books with this type of plot. Why would I want to read another? 
 (If I ever find sufficient reason to ignore the above? I might give it a go. But I have not heard anything that made me really excited to read it, so. Eh.)