Rating: 4 stars
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian
Recommended for: Readers looking for a darker young adult book, beautifully written
Hauntingly beautiful. Would have gotten a 5 stars rating from me, if not for two reasons:
1. Rhine talked of how important freedom was to her and that was what she had in her previous life (before the kidnap), but I don't consider being unable to feel safe in your own home or go outside the strets on your own as signs of freedom. So, life outside the mansion was not exactly as free or as filled with happy mornings of fishing in the wharfs as she preached to Gabriel.
2. I can't imagine a young man who's in love with his wife, not asking her to make love with him more than once. Yes, he was shy and she refused him the one time he asked, but that was before she started showing she cared for him. The night where she said she loved him, that was the deal breaker for me. I couldn't believe any man in love would leave the woman, who less than an hour ago claimed she loved him, at the door of her bedroom and go quietly away without even asking her to let him share her bed!
Otherwise, it was a great psychological thriller, which I couldn't put down for fear of what might happen next. Fans of adventure packed YA will have to look elsewhere.
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