That's it? After all of that, you're going to leave me hanging like that? Rude! 
 I feel that we could do away with book two almost completely. Summarize that books, slap it to the beginning of this one as two or three chapters, and then give us an actual resolution to the series. 
 I did appreciate that Cia got slightly less boy crazy as the rebellion wore on, but I'd have liked for to have had more definition. I never felt like I knew Cia. 
 There were twists that came out of nowhere, and made absolutely no sense. I didn't enjoy it one bit.(view spoiler)[ The president needs Cia to become an assassin, but really it's just one more test to see if she's university material, but really it's about the president taking over the testing but really... (hide spoiler)] really?! 
 I'm all for a good twist, I love the ones I don't see coming, but these ones we just weird. Not only that, but the author gives you the twist, but then doesn't resolve it!! Arg! 
 Another downhill trilogy that I won't be recommending to people I want to keep talking to me. Oh well, you live and you learn.