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Panic (Panic, #1)

Lauren Oliver

Start date: April 1, 2014

Finish date: April 30, 2014

Discussion: Stand Alone

Why we're reading this: It won the poll for the stand alone book
[close] It won the poll for the stand alone book

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Apr 22, 2014 alana rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, young-adult, addicted-to-ya-2014-books

Why has this been shelved by people as dystopian? Panic is a work of realistic fiction in which high school kids engage in a risky game in order to win money. Though the funding might be farfetched, the premise isn't, and all the characters are "normal" high school kids in a typical, contemporary American town. With that small issue cleared up, I didn't like this book.

Panic was a 2014 Book of the Month for the Addicted to YA reading group. Kids attempting deadly stunts could potentially be an in ...more

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Feb 24, 2014 Jeanine rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya

So, soooo good! I love her books! She evokes such beautiful feelings and pictures in my head with her words...poetic almost. Should make a great movie too!

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