Red Rising by Pierce Brown

...or, Ender Potter and the Departed Hunger Games. (Beware of mild spoilers) Let me be clear, I have no problem with a book being inspired by another book, or even of a book being derivative of another. A good storyteller is a good storyteller, no matter which story they're telling, and if I learned anything from watching The West Wing repeatedly, it's that "good writers borrow from other writers, and great writer steal outright". There is evidence of both borrowing and outright theft in Red Rising, but - a