I didn't love this one as much as I loved
Cinder. Something about Scarlet seems off-putting. I loved her at first, but then as the story went on, I felt myself surprised at how her character changed. Surely, what happened to her was traumatic, but it felt like the book cut her growth short. Perhaps that was due to word count and publisher issues or perhaps the author wanted to keep us on a cliffhanger.
Her relationships with Wolf felt very, very cheesey. At one point, I stopped reading and used a pick up line from the book on my boyfriend because the cheese was just oozing out. I would also say it felt rushed and like more was compacted into this novel than
Cinder.
I'm definitely going to continue the series since it's one of the best I've read in a while, but I would like more Cinder and less Scarlet.