The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

…. The premise for The Hunger Games is admittedly somewhat derivative and one could come up with dozens of possible Hollywood-pitch-like pairings: “it’s Survivor meets Running Man”, “it’s The Lottery meets The Most Dangerous Game”, “it’s …”. None of it matters. What very often counts in a genre novel, where many of the same old premises, same old tropes, same old formulas, appear and reappear over the years is not the original starting point, but what you do with it. What The Hunger Games is, is good…  Read the rest.