palinss's reviews
455 reviews

I love Lauren Oliver books. The Delirium series is one of my all time favorites, but Panic did not fulfill my expectations. 'Panic' is a game that graduating seniors play every year with the prize being all the money collected from the 'tax' that the students enforce everyday at school. You never really get to know how this all started though and how they've been able to get away with this all these years. Which is something I struggled with while reading it. The cops would be on top of the students graduating, parents would most likely make sure their kids wouldn't go out at night, etc. Something I also didn't like about the whole story was that the characters in the story would risk their lives for money. Half the time the characters realized that they'd be leaving behind friends, family and throwing away their whole future just for money. The main characters were also fighting for more than money though which saved them from being totally greedy, they were each struggling with something inside them and the game served as some sort of redemption. The characters were one of my favorite parts in the story. The characters were very relatable and easy to sympathize with. Oliver portryed teenagers really well I'd say, sneaking out, drinking and having fun hanging out with friends, but not exaggerating it either. A large part of the story was really predictable as well, but that could be just me, I'm pretty good at guessing the ending of books. So, the reason I gave this book only 3 stars was because I did really enjoy the whole idea of the book and the characters were very well written, but the story had a lot of holes in it making it hard to really enjoy it.