I surprised myself by actually enjoying this novel. After the painful fail of trying to reading Candor I thought myself done with YA, but apparently I can still chug down some. Admittedly there were instances that became annoying, too much focus on high school social life, peer pressure, and popularity and such. But I managed to chalk it up to, in some way it makes sense that when on some unconscious level at least you feel your life unwinding towards the inevitable, you may want to live whatever time you have left acording to the rules and structures you are most familiar with. Beyond the humour ( plenty of witty remarks being thrown around) and the gore and the none-vegan menus and very visual descriptions, I thought there was depth to the story too. The true power house, though, remains the zombie-POV and the interesting take on this widely explored motif of zombies. I also appreciated the really rare motif of the post zombie apocalypse setting. Books more often deal with the fall-out, the before and after, but this novel went even further and sets the story in a time when society is well on its way towards recovering from the fall-out. The zombies have been wiped out mostly and society is pretending to be back to business as usual. The ending freaked me out a bit, I did not see the whole Running Man thing happening in the context of this novel. Maybe intended to leave things open enough to allow for an above-zero chance of a happy ending. Which admittedly even I would like.