Review: Reminiscent of others, but unique in its own way
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
What I love about Cameron is his way of pulling in references and ideas from other places, and twisting them in a way to make all his own. This book is reminiscent of Divergent and Hunger Games in that it has an extremely strong female hero to the story who doesn't fall a la Bella Swan into being a simpering idiot. That's extremely lacking in today's culture - strong females are needed to help teach our young females how they should be!In this book, I enjoyed the twists between something foreign and future and something very current and present at the same time. We're addicted to our devices in the way that's described in the book. Body hacking is a very real community of people. And with reality television being so popular, its not a far stretch of the imagination to think that the Monster Show isn't too far into the dystopian future.Can't wait to see another in this series. I wasn't expecting to like this book because I did not enjoy the Hunger Games trilogy, but I was pleasantly surprised and can't wait to see another one come out from him.