An intense, fast-paced, summer blockbuster of a read. The characters are very well fleshed out and believable--their interactions and behaviors have a certain quality of "truth" to them thus making the story resonate that much more with the reader. This is vital in a book such as this, where kids are tossed into such brutal circumstances it'd be easy to shrug it all off as too "unrealistic".

If you're like me and are a fan of the dystopian type genre, this book will definitely hit the spot. Trust me, you won't be able to put it down!