Battle Royale 617 pages
I wanted to read this for a long time since I had heard, somewhere, this book compared favorably to The Hunger Games. There is just the one copy in our consortium, it always had requests and I kept putting off reading it when I did get to check it out.
So, finally I read it. I wouldn't say that it is as good as the Collins book, but it did stick with me. In a vastly different Japan, one class of 7th graders (more like 14-15 year-olds) is hijacked by the government each year, taken to a remote location, and forced to fight each other to the death. It is a quick read, but the characters are a bit flat and the action is repetitive. Pretty good.
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