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Book Review of The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Bk 1)

The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Bk 1)
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Teen Science Fiction. ** ½*. Sometime in the future, 24 young people are chosen from a lottery pool and forced into an annual televised show called The Hunger Games, a battle to the death with only one possible winner.

It's Stephen King's The Long Walk meets The Truman Show. While the premise sounds exciting, the book lacks proper editing, meandering at times, and not really developing certain characters or relationships meant to add suspense at key moments.