I really wanted to like this book. Conceptually, it had a lot of great things, and the MC was unhinged in an amazing way. 

But man, the misogyny. And I don’t just mean the evil patriarchy in the book. I mean in the way her sister is fridged and then almost never brought up again, as if she didn’t exist except as plot motivation. I mean in the way the MC has 0 female friends and there is not a single female character she has a positive relationship with. I mean in the way the MC wants to end the killing of girls but is 100% okay with slaughtering boys. I mean in the way this book doesn’t pass the Bechdel test. I mean in the way

some guy makes her strip naked and read a contract on camera, and she says whatever, humiliation is just a state of mind,

effectively invalidating all the women (and people) who have felt shame and humiliation from that same thing. It kind of blames them for feeling shamed. 

It was a good idea, and in many ways, it actually felt like the hunger games. It just didn’t hit the mark for me.