"In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school. Even if your death wouldn't accomplish something so long-awaited, glorious, and grand, I'd still relish this moment, killing you." I'm sorry, was I supposed to agree with absolutely everything the evil villain said and wait, with baited breath, for her to kill Lucinda Price painfully on my behalf? This review contains spoilers. I have a list of rules for authors. Kind of like a checklist to ensure that their novel is going to be good. This book breaks them all. For posterity I'm going to list exactly which ones and why. 1. Don't assume that your audience isn't as smart as you. Statistically speaking, you're probably sitting on a fat, old average like the rest of us. Try to flex our grey matter. Please. Lauren Kate thinks we're idiots. She really, really does. The prologue