As many of those who bought this book, I was attracted by the reviews that compared this book to Hunger Games. The plot is rather successful, but the author was certainly not the same mastery of suspense that Suzanne Collins. Many new terms remain unexplained at the end of the book, the love triangle is fairly commonplace, when the heroine is faced with an impossible situation it is resolved too quickly and very flat way. I find the whole book quite scrappy, some passages are very good, but overall I have not been seized by his reading. I finished this book without enthusiasm, and I will not buy volume 2.