Panic by Lauren Oliver
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is probably the best one that Lauren Oliver has written to date. It has a marvelously evocative setting: in many cases the scene descriptions will hint to you what is going on in a scene long before the action or dialogue take you there. It's believable and yet dark, and the realistic tone grounds what could have otherwise become a silly story. This is the Hunger Games without the fantasy setting. It's a story of poverty, desperation, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood. I really liked it a lot. The only thing that keeps it from five stars is that it either ended too quickly or not quickly enough. The last chapter felt tacked on in a way that either should have been expanded on or excised completely.
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