** spoiler alert ** 
 I had high hopes. A neat concept, a dystopian mixed with magic. Sometimes, things I like apparently aren't meant to be together. First, it felt like 2 books; one in the future with all these rules based in reality and then one inside...um...a snowglobe filled with witches. Okay. 
 Larkstorm suffered from ALMOST being good at every turn. Lark kept getting all the info she needed in long conversations with people who just show up wherever she went. I kept thinking, okay, THIS is a trick, a trap. This person isn't the person she thinks it is. Then, when that plot twist finally did happen, it had no impact. The author was afraid to make anyone who Lark ever thought of as good betray her. It read like hitting on note on a piano over and over and over. 
 And the ending? Honestly, I'm not sure what happened. She leaves. They're bound. Forever. Lark didn't do what she should have done all along until she screwed Beck's life up as thoroughly as possibly imaginable? And Lark thinks he's still got his light, or whatever? Yeah, doubt that. That boy's done. 
 Plus, here's yet another book in desperate need of a thorough editorial eye. Problems, grammatical errors, parts where the author clearly had italicized words and sentences underlined like raw manuscripts usually have and missed getting rid of the underline. At one point there's "New paragraph?" the editors (or more likely the no one that edited this) missed. I hate easily-fixable errors like this. It's just laziness. 
 I read the book all the way to the end pretty much in one day, so it held my interest enough. Kinda wish I'd read something else today though. Now today's done and THIS was the book I read. Sad, mostly because it could have been better.