Honestly I was expecting more from the book with it being compared to the hunger games (the bachelor party was ok) but the only resemblance of the hunger games was calling them tributes and then some.of the trials, I get that the author is just trying to use big names to get her book read but there's so much more to the hunger games then just the games. So to say this is similar doesn't feel right. 

Yes there was some harrowing experiences, but not enough to be compared to Hunger Games. 

Overall storyline is good, plot predicable, especially since the author pretty much writes it out for you. I'll read the next book and hopefully it'll be better.