Well, it's YA.
So does that mean I shouldn't expect it to be very good? Maybe. I'm in a bit of a muddle about that actually.
It was (to me, at least) predictable, the violence seemed gratuitous, and the plot a mish-mash between Survivor, Running Man, The Lottery, and Reality TV 2083, with all the freshness implied thereby- but if I was a teen, and had no store of cultural expectations for what might happen in such a scenario, would I be excited by this book?
I doubt it. But for what it was, it was well done.
