Saved wasn't a terrible book as far as genre YA goes, but it definitely read like a first or second time effort. The first thing that struck me right from the start was the over-the-top misery the author subjected the main character to. Granted, we all want to see the underdog triumph over adversity and all, but Keira's existence is an endless pity party where EVERYONE ignores her and EVERYONE doesn't care about her, and her life from the moment she came out of the womb an interminable tale of woe. It wasn't long before this got tiresome.

The bones of the plot were okay, but everything that went towards expanding it into a fully-fledged story was pretty cursory. Also, the romance defied all my attempts at suspension of disbelief ... undying love just seems to materialise out of the pages with no rhyme or reason as to why or how.

If the writer slowed things down, padded out the thinner parts of the story and pulled back on the melodrama, this would be a much better novel.