I don't want to give too much away about her story, but I'm not sure who wouldn't like her as a character. Not only is Heather strong, but she is also a rock for people around her. She is put in situations that seemed beyond her abilities, but it turns out that she can be successful. She doesn't only find her beauty, but Heather finds her strength. Do I think it's worth dealing with those parts? Definitely. Heather is a pretty typical YA-narrator in the sense that she doesn't think she's beautiful, but then at the end of the book everyone finds her gorgeous blabla.
Team Heather!Īs I said before, the store alternates between Heather and Dodge. Would I participate in Panic? I'm not sure, but I do understand why they did it. They have pressures and worries that I also have, which made it really easy to relate to them.
These are normal teenagers, they could have been me, who have to function within our own world. The biggest difference between Panic and other challenge-driven books is that Panic is set in our society. But as the game grows, people and situations change. At least, they start with those intentions. Dodge enters to avenge his sister, who is wheelchair bound after a serious accident in the last round of her Panic games. Heather enters the game to show her ex-boyfriend, who cheated on her, that she isn't what he thinks she is (average and boring). This doesn't stop Heather and Dodge, the two narrators, from competing. But not everyone survives Panic - the challenges focus on fear and creating a sense of panic - almost each year, someone gets seriously hurts or dies. It's a competition with a hefty cash prize for the person who wins. Panic is a story about Carp, a deadbeat town in NY where high school seniors participate in a game called Panic each year. The book might sound the same with certain elements, but the feel of it is completely different. So first off I have to say - ban that idea from your mind. When I tried to explain the plot of the story to my roommate, she immediately thought Panic was some kind of Divergent or Hunger Games and I realised that my summary did make it sound like that. It sounds like the Hunger Games meets Divergent, but it actually isn't. One of the authors that is on the must-read-YA-books-list is Lauren Oliver, author of the Delirium series and of Panic - which I finally picked up. So it means that besides feeling pressured to read all the "original classics", my booklist keeps growing with YA books too. The more I blog about books, the more I realize that there are a ton of "young adult classics" (yes, I just invented that term) that I should have read, but haven't.
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