I read this book right before quarantine started and I felt like it jinxed us, but it was a very good spooky read despite that. I didn't get a Lord of the Flies feeling from it, but that isn't a bad thing because I don't particularly care for that anyway. The mutations caused by The Tox were gruesome and the pages were begging me to keep turning them. The characters weren't exactly likable, but I did find them interesting. They were downright cold sometimes, but I guess that's what happens when a mysterious toxic disease is deforming and killing off you and your classmates. Looking back at this book now after the past year is wild because the government's response to this disease in the book is basically, "Yeah, we'll throw you some scraps so you don't die, I guess. We're working on a cure to help you, so chill out." But then?? The way it ends?? Wild. Had me paranoid for a little while about how it would play out in real life.