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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
Updated: My first read through of PANIC was in 2015. After this read through, I'm keeping my original rating of 4 stars. I still like the book and after having watched the series, I also really liked the changes that were made to bring it to the screen. Some of those changes I prefer. Overall, I still think it's a solid story and I still really like Heather, while I'm less drawn to Dodge.
Old review below:
I'm a Lauren Oliver fan. I own her Delirium series in hardback and was thrilled to find a new read from her while I browsed the Nook shop. I read "Panic" during a very long car ride and am happy to report that Oliver's plot and characters made the miles past incredible fast.
Combine a dead-end town, a high-stakes game and a group of graduating seniors with secrets, dreams and revenge agendas and you have a recipe for an attention-gripping novel. "Panic" follows a group of teens during the summer immediately following their high school graduation. Panic is the game and if you play, you better be willing to go all the way. Of course everyone has their own reason for playing Panic. Many play for the big money pay out that goes to the last surviving players, but some play for more sinister reasons.
Lauren Oliver delivers characters you'll both love and love to hate as well as plenty of action. Did I mention the tigers? Get a copy of "Panic" and enjoy its twists and turns. Root for your favorite Panic players and see if you can predict who will come out on top.
Note: I read on Lauren Oliver's website that "Panic" has been optioned by Universal Pictures. How cool is that?
Old review below:
I'm a Lauren Oliver fan. I own her Delirium series in hardback and was thrilled to find a new read from her while I browsed the Nook shop. I read "Panic" during a very long car ride and am happy to report that Oliver's plot and characters made the miles past incredible fast.
Combine a dead-end town, a high-stakes game and a group of graduating seniors with secrets, dreams and revenge agendas and you have a recipe for an attention-gripping novel. "Panic" follows a group of teens during the summer immediately following their high school graduation. Panic is the game and if you play, you better be willing to go all the way. Of course everyone has their own reason for playing Panic. Many play for the big money pay out that goes to the last surviving players, but some play for more sinister reasons.
Lauren Oliver delivers characters you'll both love and love to hate as well as plenty of action. Did I mention the tigers? Get a copy of "Panic" and enjoy its twists and turns. Root for your favorite Panic players and see if you can predict who will come out on top.
Note: I read on Lauren Oliver's website that "Panic" has been optioned by Universal Pictures. How cool is that?
It's been a long time since I've read a book that was so good I couldn't put it down but Panic was one of those few for me. I stayed up so late reading this because I was so involved in the emotions of the book that I couldn't stand not knowing what was going to happen next. A definite must read.
Panic was a pretty good book. I really didn't want to put it down till I was complete. The book drew me in with amazing characters that was throughly developed, realistic story plots, and awesome supporting characters. It was told from duel perspectives of Dodge and Heather. This made the novel more interesting and suspenseful. Overall, great book!
3.5
This is an intriguing premise: a bunch of high schoolers playing a game of "panic," which basically amounts to various kinds of dares to see who wins a jackpot... I expected more DARING escapades, but I suppose to he realistic, it needs to be dares that high schoolers would come up with.
I really wanted to know more about some of the characters who end up being important to Heather, and to feel a sense of resolution for her. Instead, I'm left feeling like the story isn't quite complete.
It is well written and maintained my attention, but I still want more. Thankfully, it's not written in all first person like many YA novels.
This is an intriguing premise: a bunch of high schoolers playing a game of "panic," which basically amounts to various kinds of dares to see who wins a jackpot... I expected more DARING escapades, but I suppose to he realistic, it needs to be dares that high schoolers would come up with.
I really wanted to know more about some of the characters who end up being important to Heather, and to feel a sense of resolution for her. Instead, I'm left feeling like the story isn't quite complete.
It is well written and maintained my attention, but I still want more. Thankfully, it's not written in all first person like many YA novels.
I feel like the plot was an excellent idea but executed poorly. Other things distracted the main goal, and a few things caught me off guard in a random sense.
Ending fell flat
I felt like the whole book was building toward something but started to unravel as secrets were revealed. The ending was very anticlimactic.
I felt like the whole book was building toward something but started to unravel as secrets were revealed. The ending was very anticlimactic.
Incredibly well written, believable, a really good small town story with a twist. I loved it
I’m not going to lie for the first half of the book, I was bored. But once it got half way it got super good. My god, my heart was racing a lot and I couldn’t stop reading.
takhle nejak to vypadalo:
12:00 - doctu to aspon na 60 procent
61 procent - tak na 66
68 - sakra, no tak 70
73 - ne, vubec neni pul druhy, a do 75 to dam...
75 - ale ted je to zajimavy...
80 - ted taky!
85 - tak uz to doctu, no...
je 3:15 a posledni stranky jsem malem nedychala... ani se mi nechce spat. tak asi... budu zirat do stropu.
12:00 - doctu to aspon na 60 procent
61 procent - tak na 66
68 - sakra, no tak 70
73 - ne, vubec neni pul druhy, a do 75 to dam...
75 - ale ted je to zajimavy...
80 - ted taky!
85 - tak uz to doctu, no...
je 3:15 a posledni stranky jsem malem nedychala... ani se mi nechce spat. tak asi... budu zirat do stropu.