Rating: 2/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 Rachel and Logan live in a world where there are pockets of civilization, and everything else is the Wasteland. These pockets are ruled by one person each, and in their town, the Commander is in charge of everything. Rachel's father is a courier - someone who delivers things through the Wasteland. People don't typically leave the towns, since in the Wasteland lies the Cursed One - a dragon-like creature who preys on anyone in its path. When Rachel's father doesn't return from a mission, he is declared dead and Logan, her father's 19-year-old apprentice is deemed her Protector (we'll get to that later). However, the Commander believes that her father isn't really dead - that he has a certain package from another town that the Commander really wants. He wants it so badly that he's willing to blackmail Rachel into getting it for him. This novel is told from the dual perspective of Rachel and Logan as they try to outsmart the Commander and come out of it alive. 
 While this book wasn't necessarily bad, I didn't give it a good rating because it also didn't hold my attention very well, and wasn't that memorable. It was another story of a town where the man in charge takes interest in the heroine for some reason or another and then continues to paint an evil picture of said man and so on. She also has a super special romance with a super special boy whom she shares a super special past from. I usually don't mind when stories have some cliches in them, but I guess it bothered me this time because it had those cliches while also having characters that weren't all that interesting. Also, nothing was really explained well in the book. What is the Cursed One, why is it there, and where did it come from? Why did they decide that all women were helpless little creatures that needed to be constantly accompanied by a man (their Protector)? The world was interesting but I wish there were more explanations. 
 I also wasn't a big fan of the dual perspective at times. I don't really like when authors have a dual perspective while having their two perspectives together doing the same thing. Sometimes it would have a chapter from Rachel's perspective, and then another chapter from Logan's perspective where it would be the exact same thing, just with his feelings instead. This wasn't happening when they were in different places, of course, but I noticed it a lot when they were together. Also, I didn't really like Rachel. Logan wasn't that interesting to me at all, so as a female I tend to try to identify with the female heroine if possible. However, it seemed that Rachel was always rolling in rage and grief and tears, and that was all she was. She was so unmemorable to me that I forgot her name and I only read this book two days ago. 
 Overall, I wasn't too keen on this one. I found none of the characters likeable or memorable. The story was okay but nothing was explained well. I could've enjoyed it if I was okay with not knowing much about the universe, but as an inquisitive person I wasn't too happy that almost no information was revealed about the background of the universe. As a result, I wouldn't recommend this book to someone unless they're content with a heroine who is always caught up in grief, and not knowing much about the world.