Dear Alexandra Bracken, 
 do you realize that you could have cut off this incredibly whiny book by a third if your so-called heroine had not the habit of repeating everything three times? Have you an idea of how much annoying this sequence of Please, please, please! Don't, don't, don't! Not him, not him, not him! Oh god, oh god, oh god! My fault, my fault, my fault! is? I don't think so, since in the last part of the book you actually raised the number of repetitions to five (five!). Have you ever noticed how unnecessarily melodramatic is this habit Ruby has of answering every question only after having relived random moments of her life which may or may not relate to the said question but that invariably remind us of how much she has suffered? If you thought that you were creating suspense by interrupting every conversation or action with two pages of Ruby's overly dramatic cogitations, think again. Besides, don't you know that it is much easier to relate to a character's suffering if he/she is not always complaining about them? Hasn't anyone told you that Ruby's constant guilty trips are both unjustified and utterly annoying? And don't you find ridiculous all that bad-ass talking when the protagonist keeps collapsing on her knees crying? It is just as ridiculous as the fact that someone who has received a military training keeps falling from a trap to another and shows no strategic capability whatsoever. And almost as ridiculous as the scene when Ruby finds herself face to face with her mortal enemy, who is incidentally trying to kill her friends, has not one but two guns pointed at him but she just CAN'T shoot him. Bah!