The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

I miss him so badly it hurts.

I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.