This book can be read at different levels -- as an adventure, a nightmare and most interesting of all as a satire and social commentary on the voyeurism of reality TV. I was drawn into the story and found myself rooting for the heroine, only to realize that I wasn't much different from the gruesome TV audience that was watching the action as a sporting event rather than as a horror story in which children are forced to kill each other. This parallel between the reader and the TV viewers places the reader into the story in a way that leads to some provocative
self reflection.