The Cage
By Megan Shepherd
Genre: Young Adult Sci-Fi
Personal Rating: 9/10

When Cora Mason wakes up in the middle of a desert, she has no recollection on how she got there. Even stranger is the fact that next to the desert is a town, a swamp, a jungle, snow covered mountain, and an ocean. And she is not alone. Five other kids have been dumped into the odd environment: a gorgeous model, a genius, an army brat, a tattooed smuggler, and a dead girl floating in the ocean. As the group tries to make sense of their surroundings, they discover that they hadn't been stranded, they had been captured. They were trapped in a cage--a human zoo on an alien planet. Their captors believe that they are doing these humans a favor by putting them in the cage, by saving them from the unpredictability of human society. And as Cora forms a forbidden attachment to one of her jailers, she realizes that her best chance for escape may be in the arms of her own captor.

I loved this book! I reminded me of a mix between The Maze Runner and Lord of the Flies but I also thought it was incredibly unique in it's own sense. All of the characters were diverse people with interesting pasts, and I loved how the book was told in multiple perspectives. This book was full of suspense and mystery, I could not put it down. I didn't feel like any of the plot was predictable  and the ending left me in total suspense for the next book.