While I'm still not 100% on the strike-out writing, Mafi's writing is beyond exceptional. Her words drip with the beauty of poetry and she generates such an incredibly vivid atmosphere. Every moment of this book felt perfect. The characters were so deep and raw and brutally developed, and the overall plot was perfectly wrapped in an inexplicably intriguing world Lore that dried out my mouth (in a good way) every time it was dipped into a little more.

Needless to say, this book deserves no less than 5 stars and I will be reading the sequel immediately.