You've reached the point of no return 
 Welcome to the real Pandora's Box 
 Total annihilation in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 days... 
 THIS was the message that Pandora found on her birthday, when she got online to access PANDORA'S BOX, the world's most popular massive multi-player online computer game. This was at the same time that the internet, telephone, and television all simultaneously shut down in her home, creating an eerie confusion that left Pandora feeling frazzled and alarmed. 
 So, she rushed to a neighbor's home, curious to see if the technological shutdown was limited to her own address. Step-brothers Eli and Theo, the most sought after single students at Pandora's high school, confirm that they too are experiencing the same frightening message on the computer -- along with the same complete and utter separation from the rest of modern communication. 
 It all started when Pandora's long lost father, who never contacted her for any reason, sent her 12 photographs from her childhood. It was disturbing, to say the least, to receive this contact -- but not nearly as horrifying as the chaos that was unleashed the moment that Pandora began downloading these photographs, one by one by one.... 
 Now, the FBI and Homeland Security believe that Pandora is a mastermind cyber-terrorist and they'll stop at nothing to capture her -- if only, that is, they can find her before the world ends. 
 What started with the loss of internet in a single home soon escalates into the total shut down of transportation, the closure of all retail and business in the country, and even the initiation of random nuclear explosions, all of which cause more death and destruction than Pandora has ever experienced in her young life. 
 Pandora and her new friends Eli and Theo rush to escape the authorities while cracking the codes both on the video game and in the real life locations they must track down from the photographs in order to further advance in the cyber universe before the real world crashes around them. Can three teenagers REALLY rescue the universe from complete meltdown before time runs out? 
 DOOMED was, without a doubt, one of the craziest, most action packed, exciting novels I've read in a LONG time. At first, I found myself getting a bit irritated at certain details --- the overuse of the Pandora's Box references as well as the ridiculous convenience of a teenage boy being able to fly airplanes, spout off latitudes and longitudes at will, and hack into anything and everything regardless of the level of security -- but once I pushed those bothers aside I actually found myself being really drawn into the story and really invested in the outcomes of each of the three characters. 
 I think Pandora is a fun heroine -- she's spunky, a bit mouthy, creative, intelligent and loads of fun. Theo, the bad boy, was probably the most unbelievable of the three -- given that he seemed unrealistically able to whip out ridiculous talents and skills at the drop of a hat -- but in the end, he turned out to be a good match for Pandora. Eli, the handsome, popular brother, seemed like a sweet guy, but he was honestly overshadowed by the other two enough that he was hardly as memorable by the end of the novel. 
 Once we learned the reasoning behind the madness of PANDORA'S BOX, the overuse of the analogies made more sense. They were intentional, a downfall of one of the characters (who turned out to be an interesting brand of psycho, for sure!) I think the author did a fabulous job crafting the twists and turns throughout DOOMED, and I definitely did read about 300 pages of this novel *straight* without stopping (hence why my review is a bit more scattered than most, I suppose. My brain is FRIED! LOL!) 
 Like I said, you'll need to suspend reality for a bit to get yourself engrossed in the story, but in the end it's totally worth the chance. And, I was especially glad to see that DOOMED was all contained within a single volume, rather than leaving me with some edge-of-my-seat cliffhanger that I'd have to wait a year to resolve in a sequel. Thanks a bunch for that, Ms. Deebs! I don't think I could have found the patience to wait a year to see if the world would end!