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YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten<\/a> list was announced, and I CANNOT believe Panic<\/em> wasn’t on it! \u00a0I mean, I had a heck of a time even getting my hands on this one because it seems like everyone else who loved Delirium<\/a><\/em> and Before I Fall<\/a><\/em> managed to get on the list before me. \u00a0I sometimes take the full four weeks to read my library books because I have so much else going on — like reading to my kids at night. \u00a0I mean, I know it’s important. \u00a0But that’s time I could totally use to read my “own” books! \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 At the end of the day, I often only read to myself for about 15 minutes before I pass out. \u00a0It’s so common for me to fall asleep reading, in fact, that my husband has learned to check his side of the bed for my book or Kindle before simply lying down.\u00a0 (He clunked his head quite a few times before he learned that lesson!)\u00a0 This book, though, was so intense that it had me reading long past my standard bedtime.\u00a0 So long, in fact, that my husband found me still awake and reading when he came to bed for something like four nights in a row!<\/p>\n Some people have compared Panic<\/em> to The Hunger Games<\/em><\/a>, but I don’t really see it.\u00a0 I guess the whole competition between teenagers thing is what they’re stuck on, but it’s not some futuristic dystopia where the government forces teens to fight to the death.\u00a0 It’s a bunch of graduating high school seniors in a modern day, depressed town [Carp] who voluntarily take part in a crazy competition to try and win a huge sum of money.\u00a0 Though people have definitely gotten hurt, the goal of Panic<\/em> is not to hurt other people; it’s simply to do whatever it takes to win.\u00a0 Every year, there are new [anonymous] judges and new challenges presented — sometimes based on the fears of the people playing — but it always starts with a jump off a cliff and ends with a car “joust,” i.e. game of chicken. \u00a0Some people likely play because there’s nothing more interesting going on in their small town, but others play for a chance to be rich, and some have secrets that drive them to play. \u00a0It’s surprising that anyone in Carp feels confident in their friendships because friends turn on each other all the time… let alone when $67,000 is on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten list was announced, and I CANNOT believe Panic wasn’t on it! \u00a0I mean, I had a heck of a time even getting my hands on this one because it seems like everyone else who loved Delirium and Before I Fall managed to get on the list before me. \u00a0I sometimes take … Continue reading Panic by Lauren Oliver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}