Girl In the Arena by Lise Haines. If you liked the Hunger Games, you would undoubtedly like this book. Lyn is a strong female protagonist who rejects her role as a traditional Gladiator's wife. Her world portrays a reality show gone wrong in the vein of Hunger Games where contestants fight to the death. Lyn is to expected to give up her dreams and her beliefs of non-violence and follow her mother's path and marry a Gladiator. Haines is able to capture a world where celebrity, violence, and profit reign over compassion and fairness- a world that the reader can imagine that is not too far from our own. Although Hunger Games edges out Girl in Arena in its better character and emotional development, Girl is different and exciting enough to be worth the read.
