In the indeterminate future a genetic mutation has divided the human population into the Empowered and the Commoners. The Empowered, of course, abuse their superior abilities in order to subjugate the unfortunate Commoners. Our FMC wakes up in a hotel room with her memories erased, but seems to know she must find The Society. So far, so good.... One star for the concept.

This book had so many grammar mistakes and verb tense errors that reading through to the end ultimately annoyed me. Did anyone proofread this? The writing style was very simplistic, maybe fifth grade level, so it may be a YA novel but because of the errors I would not let my child read it.

There was no backstory or underlying support for the events in the story and even the story characters seemed at a loss for what to do next. A good example is how The Society exists in order to overthrow the regime of the Empowered but has no idea how to do it and when they finally get one they have no plan in place for the next step. The ending is NOT a cliff hanger.

I thank NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Sadly, I cannot recommend it.

I devoured this wonderful dystopian romantic thriller in one sitting. The storyline was clever, well written and kept you glued to the pages. You will not be disappointed if dystopian novels are in your reading list.

Overall, excellent characters, brilliant and vivid descriptions, well paced plotting, a terrific hook and a very satisfying ending.

I was drawn to this book by the cover image--there's something quite haunting about it and it stands out in a sea of illustrated covers. Once I clicked through, the description was equally compelling.

All that to say...I really wanted to love this book. But for me, and this is probably just personal preference, there were some stylistic choices that took me out of the narrative. I found some of the use of tenses confusing.

For example:

"Wandering aimlessly, she didn't realize she entered an abandoned alley"... to me should read, "she didn't realize she had entered..."

"Mimi looked at him, puzzled, but then she decided to do as he said. He just saved her..." would read more smoothly as "he'd just saved her..." I kept stopping and going back to re-read...and I struggled with it enough that I had trouble finishing the book, despite being really intrigued by the plot and premise.