It took a while for me to continue reading this after I first picked it up, but once I did, wow, I couldn't stop. I love that Michelle Zink decided to focus on her characters and on the mythology rather than on the romance aspect, which most YA stuff tend to do these days. And speaking of the mythology, she has created a solid one. One of my pet peeves with fantasy novels is authors changing the mythology within a series to suit the plot, but she seems to be sticking with her Rules; I hope that remains to be true for the next installments as well.