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I'm not mad about the Hunger Games trilogy. The first book was great. Fast-paced with good characterization. The second book was okay. It didn't get good until it repeated the hook of the first book. I didn't bother with the third book.
OTOH Harry Potter is amazing. Dickensian.
Perhaps YA SFF has taken off because it simplifies a genre that has increasingly vanished up its own butt. Instead of technology, culture, big spaceships, etc, it focuses on story.
I return to the point that the Hugo ignored The Hunger Games. This was clearly a very readable book. The sales prove it. The biggest SF award totally missed the biggest selling SF book of the decade. That says something. And Hugo should be embarrassed and taking a good look at itself.
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