I really looked forward to reading this book; I was excited about the concept of a group of kids trapped in a store having to survive on their own. It did however sadly not live up to the expectations. Yes, they were trapped, but somehow I never got to whole closed-off-from-humanity-feeling I looked forward to. It was somehow hard to get fully into the story and "feel" their situation. One good thing this book has going that was refreshing was that Dean, the protagonist, wasn't necessarily the hero of the story, (semi-spoiler, but not really: (view spoiler)[He was not the strong leader everybody looked up to but rather one of a group of the people in charge. (hide spoiler)] ) but he was also not too likeable at times. 
 I ended up giving it 3 stars (instead of 2) because it was an easy read and I didn't have to drag myself through it. Although it was a bit of a disappointing execution of the genre it wasn't the worst I've seen. The writing style was a bit off for me a couple of times (the syntax of some of the sentences was a little strange a times).