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In any event Oliver has certainly written an engaging YA novel with an intriguing premise. The only quibble is that there are too many ingredients. The Loop could also benefit from some fine tuning as the odd continuity error, cornucopia of genres, peppering of incongruous bad language and cliched plot devices might prove taxing for some.
For more thrilling and unsettling speculative fiction, you should try [[Unwind by Neal Shusterman]], a fearsome vision of the future with teens who are sacrificed and disassembled for body parts and Clappers with explosive blood who strike their hands to detonate themselves. If your tastes are gory head to Panem with the courageous Katniss in [[The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins]] and for an intellectual look at the socio politics of a dystopian world you should check out 1984 by George Orwell or visit the Alphas and the Epsilons of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Conversely if you long for a bit of humour among all the chaos and destruction you should sample [[The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness]]. You could try [[Walkaway by Cory Doctorow]] but we weren't all that impressed.
