A bit embarrassing, but I read a lot of YA. The best way I can describe this series is Hunger Games meets The Bachelor, which, as someone who despises reality TV, sounds horrible, but it works. This book was a lot of fun. I liked the dystopian future America that Cass chose as the setting for the series. It was a bit familiar (Hunger Games?). It was interesting to see a dystopia, that was not so dystopian. It was a completely functioning society, but one that was clearly not an evolution of what we have now.

If you are looking for something deep or moving, this is not it. This book is popcorn reading. But it was fun, and I don't regret reading it.