I actually quite like Hunger Games as well. But God were the copies so bad. Divergent will always be one of the shittiest things I ever got tricked into reading.
It's like the YA novel equivalent of what Final Fantasy VII did for JRPGs for a generation or two, everyone kept trying to copy it often without understanding what made it good
Or like the whole genre of YA "romance with a hot supernatural creature" novel (plus film adaptations!) that sprung up trying to recreate the success of Twilight
I actually quite like Hunger Games as well. But God were the copies so bad. Divergent will always be one of the shittiest things I ever got tricked into reading.
It's like the YA novel equivalent of what Final Fantasy VII did for JRPGs for a generation or two, everyone kept trying to copy it often without understanding what made it good
Or like the whole genre of YA "romance with a hot supernatural creature" novel (plus film adaptations!) that sprung up trying to recreate the success of Twilight
the sequels to the hunger games got worse though