![]() ![]() It’s readable, but there is something very juvenile about the sentence structure. The problems started right at the beginning. I didn’t find it to be particularly shocking, although it did read very quickly for a 600 page book. It’s a thriller and apparently both very popular and shocking in Japan. Battle Royale* is set in a dystopia based in Japan, but both essentially involve isolated kids killing each other after being given random weapons. My most immediate basis for comparison is The Hunger Games. I have a lot of conflicted feelings on this book. Shuya’s worst nightmare is about to come true as he tries to protect the girl his best friend loved as his classmates set about playing the game. They are told that they are about to kill one another on an isolated island, and to Shuya’s horror, the seriousness of this proposition is proven when his best friend is killed before his eyes. ![]() Before he can think too much, he’s asleep, and doesn’t wake up until he’s in a strange classroom, and he and all his friends have cold metal collars around their necks. ![]() ![]() But on the bus he notices something strange everyone is falling asleep, and that new tough kid Shogo is trying to break the window. Shuya is so optimistic that he’s even brought along alcohol. Shuya Nanahara and his junior high class of fifteen-year-olds are going on a field trip. ![]()
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