I'm giving this more like 2.5-2&3/4 stars, and I'm only giving it that because the premise was something fresh and new. I feel like some kind of heathen for rating it like this, but, well, I guess it didn't strike me like I thought it should. 
 I enjoyed the different take on angels, or whatever it was Charlotte was. They never actually came out and said: "Yes, you are an angel," so I can't be sure. I guess my biggest problem with this story was: I never *really* connected with Charlotte. Yes, it is written in first person present, so we are always in the moment with Charlotte. But we are...*always* in the moment with Charlotte. We are in her head, hearing all her thoughts and feelings and how much she doesn't want to leave or be forgotten by the people who love her. And I think the whole point is for us to not want that as well. But I found myself--as I was reading--not caring about whether or not she was forgotten. 
 I think, for me, that I needed more of these relationships she was so going to miss to be fleshed out more than they were. It felt like we only got to see the surface of her life. How can we be expected to mourn with her when we don't get to experience firsthand what she's losing? 
 Probably the relationships we saw the most was her friendship with Sarah and with her boss/seer Monroe. These the ones we got the most insight into, but they didn't end up being the most important to Charlotte. There was barely any interaction at all with her adoptive mother, Mercy, or her adoptive sibling Alex. Through it all she was most afraid of losing her boyfriend, Harlin. But, we say barely any interaction between the two except when they were making out. 
 Now, I am not one to complain about make out scenes. I love them. But, for how Charlotte was portraying their relationship in her thoughts, I needed to *feel* more of a relationship there than there was. They barely talked, and when they did, it was usually superficial and only a few lines before they made out again. Harlin had an interesting background and was going through some things himself, but we never got to hear about any of it. Seriously, the only time we saw him was when Charlotte was kissing on him. 
 I just...ugh. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. From all of the 5 star reviews I thought it was going to be really epic and heartbreaking and unforgettable, but it wasn't any of those things to me. Charlotte wasn't memorable (or maybe that was the point?). She had nothing--besides her gold skin and compulsions--that made her unique. Her personality was a bit flat and undeveloped, in my opinion. 
 I don't like leaving reviews like this, so I'll stop now. I guess I was just disappointed. After all the hype surrounding this, I expected something different than I got.