It’s for people who like pop culture and are delighted by the endless references in the book, as a media-loving manchild myself if someone said that Ready Player One was a 5/5 then I’d think they were a boring person lol.

Also the Midnight Library sucks lol. How to Stop Time is a infinitely more interesting book.

That’s the point I’m making- there were SO MANY dystopia genre YA books at the time that were riding off the wave that Hunger Games started, which is why it invites all the comparisons. Around a year after Mockingjay finished, Divergent was published and readers swarmed to it because it was the next biggest franchise in the genre.

It’s because Divergent was the SECOND biggest YA Dystopia franchise at the time, which is why they’re compared so often. The difference in quality is staggering.

Yeah I actually respect the author for pulling that move, but then again she had to differentiate it between the 100 other dystopia YA hunger games knockoffs at the time