This book was better than I thought it would be but not as good as I wanted it to be. It was still good! At first I thought it would be one of them books where there are so many sexy male characters all crushing on the female hero and wanting to have sexy time with her to the point where you don't understand who anyway is and feel like your reading about an orgy waiting to happen. But don't worry! It wasn't like that! The characters were a lot cooler than I thought they'd be and I thought the book had a very interesting storyline. 
 The Greek mythology threw me at first, because I like Greek mythology and I want to see it done well. When I got used to the ideas in the book then I warmed up to the greek mythos in it far more but I felt it needed more expansion, but I'm guessing that'll come in the next book (which I can't wait to read because of Aiden and he's cutey-pie self). 
 The writing was generally good but I had some major grievances with the reptitions of the same words in a sentance. And it wasn't just onces or twice, I would write up examples but I wouldn't know where to start. It just made some of the sentances a bit awkward to read. The main character was funny, she pissed me off every now and then, but it was definitely a more love than hate relationship overall. 
 I feel like I should reduce the stars to a three however, for the pretty major similarities between this and the Vampire Acadamy, like simiarities that are pretty hard to ignore: 
 Bad-ass heroine (fair enough) 
 Who was top of the class before she ran away for two three years. 
 Taught to fight by Dimitri Aiden. 
 Moroi/Dhampir/Strigoi Pure blood/half-blood/demon 
 Moroi, I mean pure bloods control elements. 
 Injured in training and gets all patched up. 
 Is once again best in the class. 
 And that was just the bare minimum.