Review: Hunger Games... but with no survivors
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
Once you reach a certain age, you are scored based on how the government feels that you can fit into society.  The ratings go from 1-10, but no one has ever reached a 10.  Anyone who is a 6 or higher will be able to live a normal (or semi-normal) life - they qualify for certain jobs based on their rating.  Once you are rated, you stay at that rating unless something drastic happens to your family... for example, if you have a child that is a "Monster" - meaning a rating of 5 or below, your rating will also drop because you had the audacity to give birth to someone that society views as worthless.Decca will not let society decide her place, however, She switches her monitor with someone who will be classified as a Monster, so that she can go to the games in the hope of finding the boy she loves.  However, no one is supposed to live through these games.Cameron Jace steps away from the fairy tales and instead provides us a thought-provoking dystopian society where the elite citizens slowly realize that labeling someone a Monster doesn't really make them one, and that some of the real monsters are the people surrounding you.