Battle Royale is one of my favourite ever books so I was interested in the similarities between that and this book after a few comments (on Twitter) that The Hunger Games was a ripoff off Battle Royale. After reading it I would say there are similarities but I wouldn't call this book a ripoff of Battle Royale. That aside I loved this book and read it in one day, so hard to stop reading and as I got near the end I kept reading till 6am.