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Battle Royale: Remastered
by Koushun Takami
In a nutshell: a bunch of kids are thrown together to kill each other until there's only one survivor. These kids are so dumb in so many ways. Fancy thinking you'd get away with hacking a laptop in a controlled Battle Royale when these government officials are watching EVERYTHING then being (*insert Pikachu meme*) surprised to find out...they knew what you were doing! 🤦♀️
It's blatantly obvious where The Hunger Games came from but I have to say that I prefer THG. THG is almost identical to BR even down to the two survivors and the survivor re-entering the following year but THG succeeds in having characters that I cared about where BR doesn't, so for this entire book I was just reading for the fun student countdown at the end of every chapter.
There is backstory provided on each BR character but for me I think the number of students in BR is far too high to expect me to connect with any particular one, even though technically there are a few characters that are the 'main characters' but I didn't care for these. There's a lot of repetition with some of the characters, their quirks and their hobbies, which became tedious by the halfway point.
This took longer to read when it really shouldn't have.
It's blatantly obvious where The Hunger Games came from but I have to say that I prefer THG. THG is almost identical to BR even down to the two survivors and the survivor re-entering the following year but THG succeeds in having characters that I cared about where BR doesn't, so for this entire book I was just reading for the fun student countdown at the end of every chapter.
There is backstory provided on each BR character but for me I think the number of students in BR is far too high to expect me to connect with any particular one, even though technically there are a few characters that are the 'main characters' but I didn't care for these. There's a lot of repetition with some of the characters, their quirks and their hobbies, which became tedious by the halfway point.
This took longer to read when it really shouldn't have.