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I recently read this trilogy. I see why it gets compared to Battle Royale but it should not be. Once you get past 'kids fighting kids in a dystopian future' they are completely different.
BR did not delve into the reasons for government behavior (kept it relatively faceless), had less serious interaction between characters, and did nothing like the coming-of-age stuff we get from HG. There was nothing at all in BR like the social dithering and which-boy-do-I-love we got from Katniss.
The first HG book was quite good, to me. The plotting was spot-on. You know, the 'how is she going to get out of this situation' and 'what happens next' stuff. The second book was ho-hum. The third book was atrocious, a train wreck, and I only finished it because I was invested in the series by then.
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