I'm not overly fond of the super-genius story, and there are two of them here, macking on each other and trying to overthrow the fascist government that (of course!) one of them has been innocently working for. But, you know, it's a fun read, full of action, and if I don't find any of it particularly convincing I was still entertained. It lacks the seeping dystopian misery of books like The Hunger Games, but life is still nasty, brutish and short for the majority. I think I would have liked to see a little more of that majority - there are hints of it with the riots and rebels and so on - but this is so tightly focused on the primary relationship (the story alternates between June and Day) that there doesn't seem that much room for anything else substantial to come into focus. A popcorn read, but I happen to like popcorn so there you go.