More than anything, I want to tell you how much I loved this book. After tearing through “The Program” series a couple years back, I was enthusiastic when I heard Suzanne Young announce her new series.

I was pleased (as usual) with Young’s writing style and the issues it addresses. (There are similarities that really highlight the flaws in our society). But the slower pacing of the story and the plot twist being that the girls are... cyborgs? AI’s? Robots? It really threw me out of the story, made it a lot harder for me to sympathize with the characters and didn’t justify how cyborgs are so quickly and easily humanized.

(Ex. Jackson telling Mena that of *course* it is a life she has. If I were in his shoes I think I would be a little more freaked that my potential crush turned out to not even be the same species as me.)

Despite feeling the ending was slightly anticlimactic, I do still look forward to reading the rest of the series. Young has yet to disappoint me, and I have high hopes that the story will pick up in the next book.