Review: senseless brutality and gore
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
Let's perform genetic experiments on unborn or infants, then kidnap them when they turn 15 and force them into a brutal system where they must follow the rules absolutely or be killed horribly in front of the other children.  Then pick out one kid to be the scapegoat and stack the odds against him for something his dad did.  Some of the experiments go WRONG and kids are turned into crazed forms of animals (polar bears, tigers, boars, dogs, cougars, etc) that want nothing more than to eat the other kids. Force the ones that survive to vie for points by killing the change children or performing impossible tasks in order to Graduate.  The ones that don't get enough points (no matter how hard they try) are chained to the floor and the changlings get to eat them as a snack.  One of the most horrible alternate reality books I have ever read.  There are no explanations of why this is happening or why the kids were picked, only that if they make it they become Graduates and will be an elite force.... but for what????.  Just brutality and cruelty.  I kept thinking that it would all make sense at some point, but it didn't and I have no desire to wade through more blood and terror in hopes of finding out why.  This book should have warning labels!