In it, we follow what happens to a class full of schoolchildren when they’re forced to fight each other in a hellish game for survival, where there can be only one winner. It’s also a bit like The Hunger Games, only more original. Put simply, Battle Royale is like a mixture between a Roman coliseum and Lord of the Flies, but with modern technology thrown in for good measure. And if you’ve seen the movie then you know what to expect – the essential plot is still the same, even if the book does differ from the movie throughout in terms of how the students fare along the way, and so you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect. You’d be forgiven if you heard about Battle Royale because of the movie adaptation – after all, that’s where I first heard about it, too.
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