Not one of my favorites or one that takes me to another world, but an average read nonetheless.Eats Babiesģ.25 stars. Even with this sour-toned review, it wasn't a terrible read. The events and the characters were missing a crucial creative spark that normally makes it all come alive for me (a total bummer for any book, to be unattached to the characters). It's like the author had a good base idea for the story but didn't spend time developing the actual storyline. The whole book, besides for the underlying premise (a half extraterrestrial, half human girl), seemed pretty much unplanned/thrown together. Not weak as in they didn't care for each other, but weak as in the crafting of it.

The unfortunate thing is how weak their relationship was. It was the most classic play of loving someone you can't have. The content, the ideas inside of the book's formatting, were interesting enough, though, outside of the snippets we hear about Ariane's time with GTX, the majority of anything the reader really remembers is the romance between Ariane and Zane. I really believe this degraded the plot, as much of what made up the book was descriptions of the past simply said, not actually occurring. I think this style the author chose to use created many long paragraphs of the narrator talking on and on there was too much telling and not enough showing. The history and flashbacks weren't encased in the character's head/thoughts, they were blatantly said as if explaining to an audience. The characters talked in the first person as if talking to someone (indirectly). An odd thing about the writing was that it read as though it was a letter or a speech.

The story was written from alternating perspectives which I'm not normally a huge fan of, but it worked okay in this circumstance.

After finishing it I can say I'm not crazy about it, but it wasn't necessarily bad.

I'd only skimmed over the synopsis before saying why not and grabbing it from the shelf. Honestly it was the name 'Zane' that caught my eye (because I love Zane from the 'Uglies' series) and prompted. Review 2: I wasn't really sold on this book I was at the library and just needed one more to bring on a long car ride. But Zane's mother wanted Zane to come with her! Wow. But then the evil man tried to throw away the only thing that he loved. And Rachel told Zane about how her grandfather was the only one that didn't ignore her all the time. Jacobs want Ariane to kill Rachel?! His own granddaughter!! That's cruel. That ending…WHY!! How can they have her father betray her!!! No! And JENNA!! I liked her.

The Rules by Stacey Kade