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Not a better YA series than the hunger games, but definitely a great YA series.
Yeah....three books of "oh woah is me. I can't make up my mind of which of the two boys that likes me I like more. Choosing is so hard"
*Edit. Lol. Some of y'all got real defensive. They were pretty good books and movies, but the love interest subplot was still cringy and I'm sticking to it.
Reread those books, if you read them.
The point is that she doesn't WANT either of those two boys. She's forced out of a friendship with both due to their feelings, and she has to play the part to keep some kind of normalcy for both the capital's cameras and for her partner's mental sanity and safety while in the ring. She's never happy, never CHOOSES Peta, and is the result of trying to cope/maintain sense of self while constantly shoved into roles constructed for her (the Volunteered Tribute, The Girl on Fire, The Mockingbird all being personas she takes on behalf of someone else's needs/desires and often just survival for her/her family)
And if you got 'romance plot' as the major storyline and not 'surviving capitalist techno-hellscape post failed-revolution', I think you read Divergent and said "these are all the same books"