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Panic by Lauren Oliver
3.0
I wanted to get this book for a very long time but the reviews always made me second guess the decision and postpone the purchase.
When I got my Ereader I finally got myself “Panic“
The general idea of the book is really good. I also liked the characters a lot since they all were different. They had cool features but all of them were toxic in their own ways. So basically teenagers. Miss Lauren Oliver portrayed that very well.
I enjoyed to see the real struggle of Heather and Lily in an abusive home and how they tried to survive on their own.
The challenges were really exciting and thrilling and the settings were spot on to give the whole challenge a more sinister twist.
However, I found this book very predictable. That Bishop was part of the jury, that the tigers were incorporated into the games (like why tf were there just tigers in the garden of a random lady in a small town in America Whaatt) and that one of the tigers would kind of get in the middle of the duel.
Talking about the duel it was written very well.
I was scared to read the next lines but read them in record time because I needed to see if the car would explode or not and if Heather would make it out in time.
While all of that was written so well and hectic and exciting, that segment ended very suddenly.
She just faced the tiger AND WASNT AFRAID ANYMORE EXCUSE ME MISS GIRL?!
Also, I know there are main characters and side characters but some were mentioned pretty frequently but they or their actions didn’t had such an impact (I. e. Dodge‘s mother (she maybe had one talking segment), Ricky (did he end up with Dayna?), Kristas boyfriend (what was he all about anyways, except for drugs?) some things just didn’t go in depth the way I hoped they would.
Lastly, what happened to dayna? Did she manage to walk again? Miss Lauren Oliver I need an answer, thank you :)
Therefore, I’ll give this book 3,5 stars.
When I got my Ereader I finally got myself “Panic“
The general idea of the book is really good. I also liked the characters a lot since they all were different. They had cool features but all of them were toxic in their own ways. So basically teenagers. Miss Lauren Oliver portrayed that very well.
I enjoyed to see the real struggle of Heather and Lily in an abusive home and how they tried to survive on their own.
The challenges were really exciting and thrilling and the settings were spot on to give the whole challenge a more sinister twist.
However, I found this book very predictable. That Bishop was part of the jury, that the tigers were incorporated into the games (like why tf were there just tigers in the garden of a random lady in a small town in America Whaatt) and that one of the tigers would kind of get in the middle of the duel.
Talking about the duel it was written very well.
I was scared to read the next lines but read them in record time because I needed to see if the car would explode or not and if Heather would make it out in time.
While all of that was written so well and hectic and exciting, that segment ended very suddenly.
She just faced the tiger AND WASNT AFRAID ANYMORE EXCUSE ME MISS GIRL?!
Also, I know there are main characters and side characters but some were mentioned pretty frequently but they or their actions didn’t had such an impact (I. e. Dodge‘s mother (she maybe had one talking segment), Ricky (did he end up with Dayna?), Kristas boyfriend (what was he all about anyways, except for drugs?) some things just didn’t go in depth the way I hoped they would.
Lastly, what happened to dayna? Did she manage to walk again? Miss Lauren Oliver I need an answer, thank you :)
Therefore, I’ll give this book 3,5 stars.