I liked the story and the plot. 
 If you know the hunger games you will probably recognize some things, especially the final testing. 
 The idea of testing the brightest students to make sure the new leaders are really clever, how to handle stress and know what to do in difficult situations is quite interesting, and not that bad. Just they way how they test it is sometimes quite shocking, and how the candidates react on it. I don't know how I would react if I were in the testing, but probably not like most characters in this book. 
 You get a lot of details of how Cia thinks, feels and why she acts the way she does. This helps to relate more to her. I would have like to have known a bit more about the other characters. They were mostly just there, and you did not really get to know them. 
 I'm quite curious how the series is to continue.