A "dark" faerie tale in the YA category. I picked this up in an attempt to figure out what Young Adult fiction means as a discrete function of the publishing world. What I learned: graphic descriptions of sex, no. Implied sex, fine. Swearing, fine. Gay kissing, fine. Moderately graphic violence, fine. Drug use, up to and including death by overdose, fine. I'm not being judgmental here, I'm just surprised to have found lots of themes that I would have thought off limits--things that the parents of young adults that I know would certainly not want their kids reading. It's almost as if the only "young adult" feature of the book is that fact that the main characters are teenagers. Maybe that's it, then. In the end I didn't like the story, not for the elements listed above, but just because it didn't flow for me as a plot, nor did I find that I especially cared for the characters. I've read some novels with evil faeries in them before and these are not they. To be fair, it looks like this is a third book; maybe I'd care about the characters if I'd been properly introduced two books ago.