The Wild Ones

 The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad, 352 pages.

When Paheli escapes the man her mother sold her to she runs straight into a battered boy with stars for eyes who tosses her a box of stars and disappears. With these stars she can travel the magical area known as the between, and use it to travel between the world's cities. She uses these (and a few other powers) to form an immortal gang made up of other betrayed and abused girls. But when the boy that gave them the stars is being chased by powerful magical forces that want to imprison him, and the girls choose to help him, because none of them will stand for having their freedom taken again.

Unfortunately this book is a really cool concept with very poor execution, which is my least favorite thing. A lot of this book read more like a manifesto then a novel, which took me out of the action pretty quickly. The cast of characters is also fairly large, and almost none of them get any real characterization at all (I can only make the vaguest guesses about who most of the women on the books cover are), and a weird amount of the book is taken up by describing all the food they eat, even in tense situations and on the run. Overall I just found that this book didn't really work for me, which was pretty disappointing.