katemac08 's review for:

Panic by Lauren Oliver
4.0
I love Lauren Oliver, and was looking forward to this one a lot. I don't think it lived up to my expectations, but I did really like some parts of it, and overall I think it was good. I just had really high expectations. The writing was beautiful, parts were very suspenseful, it was a very quick listen.
The narrator (as usual) was great!

SpoilerI felt like a lot of the story was pretty predictable. It was obvious to me early on that Bishop was a judge. I don't know if it was supposed to be that obvious or not. I didn't exactly love any of the characters or feel really strongly about their relationships. Heather and Nat felt very different and I wasn't sure why they were friends. I kept waiting for Nat or Dodge to turn out to be really bad. I was kind of surprised that the ending wrapped up so well...for a little while I thought maybe Heather was going to die. I do think you have to suspend belief about a lot of it. Russian roulette? People dying, $67K? How do they DEMAND that every student pay into it? How do the participants know they can trust the judges? Interesting idea, and I enjoyed it when I didn't think too deeply into it!