This book was everything I thought it would be. The setting is 1984esque but modern and with kids killing eachother. The Hunger Games is lucky I read it first because this book has more pages, more characters and a lot more plot to it as well. 
 Also, I wasn't expecting it, but when characters started dying, I cared!!. That might not sound so monumental, but there is a bloody lot of characters. At first I was giving myself a standing ovation whenever I recognised a character that had already been mentioned. But when the real action started kicking in, my mental voice was screaming STOP STOP NO MORE DEATHS OK? I LIKE THESE PEOPLE. Needless to say the book ignored this..