Battle Royale

Paradoxically both too long and too short. Way too short to give any of the characters the gravity their melodramatic deaths seem to want to evoke. But simultaneously written in an overlong repetitive style that made the entire thing drag.

That's 2 books in a row this year (this and The Shining) that I read because I absolutely fucking love the movie and heard the book was even better and ended up being super disappointed. Insanely rare that this happens to me :(.

I'm having bad luck with books this year. So many 2-3 stars :(.