When Kitty Doe turns seventeen she takes the test that will decide her future. She's positive she'll get at least a IV. Being a IV is average and she knows she's at least that. When she gets a III her world does a tail spin. As a III her fate is decided. She's given a job in sewage maintenance, a job fit for a III. She won't starved, but she'll still be hungry. She'll have a roof over her head, but it's guaranteed to leak. And worst of all, it means that she can't stay with her boyfriend, Benjy, or she risks ruining his life too. He still has a chance to become a IV or higher, to make something of himself. When Kitty steals an orange, a food that IIIs are forbidden from eating, she expects to be shot or sent Elsewhere. She never expected that it would lead to her being chosen to be Masked as Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. Kitty will have to decide if she wants to be a pawn used to end the rebellion Lila was leading, a rebellion she believes in, or if she wants to learn how to stand on her own against a family that lies, manipulates, and holds nothing back in their bid to keep their power. 
 This book is a hard one to rate. It starts off at a break neck speed. Characters are introduced at the perfect rate. The world of group homes and what it means to be a IV or lower are developed well. Then somewhere along the way it lost me. It's not a bad book. It's very well written, the plot was intriguing enough to keep me going and there are a few spots that had me going "Oh snap!" At the same time, I'm not sure that this stands out from the wealth of dystopians that have been flooding the market. It was missing something. Perhaps it was Lila's rousing speeches, which are only summarized instead of given to us verbatim. Perhaps it was the lack of world building and being confined to the same place for a majority of the end of the book. 
 It's an average read. Definitely interesting enough to keep one going, especially if dystopians are your thing. It raises a lot of interesting social questions that mirror today (standardized testing, deciding your future at the age of 17, the 1% vs the 99%). It also has the bonus of no love triangle for those who are burnt out with that YA trend. The fact that it is at least a two book series means that there are a lot of questions left unanswered and I'm just not sure I'm intrigued enough to find out what the answers are. 
 Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. Publication date: Nov 26 2013