I can't fully review this book because I only got about 100 pages in before giving up. There's action, I'll grant you, and I do want to know Who killed Laura Palmer? (Note: For those who don't get the reference, there is no Laura Palmer in this book. At least not in the first 100 pages. I was avoiding a spoiler while being witty and a bit of a pop culture show-off.) But the two main characters, June and Day, are supposed to be completely different, like the Odd Couple of dystopic teen fiction, and instead they are completely interchangeable. If it weren't for the (annoying, hard to read) gold font that indicates Day is narrating, it would be nearly impossible to differentiate one character's voice from the other. That's not to say the writing is bad, because it isn't. Marie Lu just doesn't seem to have created two truly individual voices for her narrators.

And don't even get me started on how two fifteen-year-olds can be this amazing when they are two fifteen-year-olds. Genius I will let slide, but some of the things they do (with injuries!) are just physically impossible.

Normally I would soldier on, but I checked this book out from the library and it's taken me so long to read that now it's overdue. And when I went to renew it, I couldn't because there's a waiting list. And I don't want to be That Person, the jerk who keeps a book forever even though other people who actually want to read it have been waiting impatiently for weeks for the book to be delivered into their eager hands. So I'm tapping out, perhaps to return later and eat my words.