Someone recommended this to me, and I'm glad they did, as I read it in just over a day. A lot of people have compared these books to Stephen King, and I can see why. The horror remains with you. I don't usually read this type of horror, and I generally avoid Stephen King as I find him far too good at freaking me out, but this was horror without giving me nightmares for weeks. There are some very nasty bits though, and it's definitely going to stay in my thoughts for a while.

It's hard to know what to tag this as. A lot of people have tagged it as dystopia, but I've actually gone for post-apocalyptic too. There hasn't actually been an apocalypse, but neither is there a dystopian society. And the way the kids are thrown into chaos by a sudden event feels apocalyptic to me. Whatever, it's a gripping read and I'm definitely going to read the next one.