Seemed like just the perfect thing to be reading right now between policy slogs and campaign press releases and also as a break from the very good but somewhat demanding other novel I've been reading on and off for forever now. Nice and candyish and propulsive. Bit of a commentary on reality tv embedded. It's good. I may or may not read the next two as Laura tells me it is all downhill.

I have heard it said that it's awfully dark for YA but in a way I think the starkness of its moral palette is probably exactly what makes it work for teenagers, for whom the world is always good and evil, life and death.