This author has a flair for humor, which is always welcome. Who knows what else these people can do? I hope to find out more. There is the power to manipulate objects and the power to read minds. I can see how there is big potential to turn this tale into a big struggle between those who want freedom and those who want to harness the power. When we got into the home stretch of the book, we got to get a taste of what these alien half-breeds could do. While I'm sort of off-and-on when it comes to this new trend of rotating PoV's, I think that Zane's PoV was necessary, otherwise he would have blended into the woodwork. Zane doesn't stand out as a 'new favorite guy,' but his role in all of this started to make sense the further we got into the story. Okay, so if we're going to have the romance, at least I'm happy to say that I was not entirely opposed to what was being offered. However, you readers who might be skeptical after reading my complaints - just go with me here. YA READERS CAN ACTUALLY HANDLE A BOOK WHERE THE ROMANCE IS NOT LARGER THAN THE STORY ITSELF. I'm starting to feel like my intelligence is being insulted. Even though I can find things to like about fluff sci-fi, this doesn't mean that I want all sci-fi to be fluff. Yes, I know.I'm the one who loved Under the Never Sky for character development, even though the technology part of the world-building was murky. If I want gossip and dating woes, I'll just read a pnr or foamy contemporary. I really wish YA sci-fi would stop trying to be pnr. Unfortunately, you have to slog through a lot of the fluff to get there. Something about the writing style read as pnr-grade fluffy at the start, but it did breach the realm of sci-fi the further into the book we got.

Since we as readers are plopped down into the middle of high school drama right off the bat, I can see how some people might want to possibly bail out early on.

I wasn't a big fan of the first half of this story and had to settle in for a while before it started to grow on me. I can see why the sell might be a little difficult. For a moment, I thought I was in the middle of campaign season and watching one of those 'Campaign Opponent X is teh debil' ads.

Hey, I'm all for everyone having the right to agree/disagree with whatever's going on out in the 'real world,' but I'd rather not read about what's distasteful to an author in my books.

Just a hunch on my part, but it would appear that this author has an axe to grind with conservatives after reading some of the snide commentary in The Rules.

The Rules by Stacey Kade