** spoiler alert ** 
 Gorgeous cover, amazing premise, I was super excited for this book!! I was expecting so much from the book jacket. An alien society! Being part of a human zoo! I was thinking an X-files episode from the other side, instead I got... a love triangle. 
 About 100 pages in I got to thinking, this could be such a great book, as long as the author doesn't make the whole thing about escaping. Or... if she makes the whole thing about escaping, she doesn't take 400 pages to get there. She did both. It draaaaaaaaagged. Shepherd threw in a few twists and turns but it didn't actually help that much. She never explains the alien technology, and her motivation for the aliens was just... blah. 
 And the love triangle! Or should I say, the love triangles. I feel like that every time a YA author adds a love triangle to their story, we should cut their royalties checks. Bad author, bad! Don't do that! 
 And it doesn't even make sense! He's an alien! She's supposed to hate him, and half the time she says she does, but also she's like, totally in love with him, man. No. 
 There was just so much that could have been done with this book, it makes me want to cry. THAT PREMISE! THAT COVER! Oh well, you read and you learn, I guess.