The book might sound the same with certain elements, but the feel of it is completely different. So first off I have to say - ban that idea from your mind. When I tried to explain the plot of the story to my roommate, she immediately thought Panic was some kind of Divergent or Hunger Games and I realised that my summary did make it sound like that. It sounds like the Hunger Games meets Divergent, but it actually isn't.

One of the authors that is on the must-read-YA-books-list is Lauren Oliver, author of the Delirium series and of Panic - which I finally picked up. So it means that besides feeling pressured to read all the 'original classics', my booklist keeps growing with YA books too. And I feel like the ending disappointed me but I forget.The more I blog about books, the more I realize that there are a ton of 'young adult classics' (yes, I just invented that term) that I should have read, but haven't. I just remember they had a lot of whacked out things to do for the comp and that all the characters seemed to have shitty lives. Everyone has something to play for.įor Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them-and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.Ĭomments: I read this book a few months back, and I have to say, I can't remember a lot of it. But what he doesn't know is that he's not the only one with a secret. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game, he's sure of it. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.ĭodge has never been afraid of Panic. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Setting: Some dead-end town called Carp Modern day

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