It's official. ...I'm in a book slump. 
 Interesting concept. I just wasn't shown why I should root for the main character. 
 Rosie's first impression was not a good one. Students are competing in a reality show that eliminates them based on their viewing rank... and watching Rosie dance to earn more gave me secondhand embarrassment. Waaaay too desperate. She keeps to herself for the most part ...well, until the cuts are about to be made - THEN she suddenly cozies up to the popular kids and outright asks them to turn their viewers onto her. For a "social experiment". Yeah... you may have fooled them, but not me. 
 Oh, and at the last second she kisses a guy to reel in more viewers. How... romantic...? 
 There were attempts to make Rosie seem less selfish. She chills with a few low rank people and tapes them doing stuff. Then she tells us a story how she stood up for a bullied "fat girl" (Rosie does know her name, but chooses to only use it near the end of this anecdote) ...but by that point I was too aware of the "plz like me" manipulation that it simply didn't work. 
 Then her stepfather hits her in another anecdote and I started getting irritated. Too cliche. Maybe I'd feel something if I clicked with the character, but I didn't and I can't help but roll my eye at this lame attempt to make me pity her. 
 Okay, so here is my social experiment: If you found out your dream school was secretly inducing seizures on other students (and likely you too) ...would you still want to stay with every fiber of your being because this place rocks and that's more important than your health?? 
 If you answered yes, then you might like this book! ;D