A review by worm_food
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

1.75

While I appreciate this book's pop culture impact I cannot stress to you enough how it's just. Bad. It handles everything, from plot twists to emotional situations with the emotional subtlety of a clown car. Everyone has 3 personality traits unless you're a woman or gay in which case that also counts as a personality trait so you only have 2 now. Some parts of the worldbuilding are straight up not explained "there was no reason the government was doing this" and it'  very very obvious it's because the author is completely uninterested in that aspect of the book and wants to write action sequences - which would be FINE if they were well written but alas, they're not. The bad writing ruined immersion so much it was hard to enjoy the contents of the book, which were not fantastic in the first place. Anyway! We live and we learn