Clearly you’ve never read the Percy Jackson series or your last two would have referenced them! Mythologic houses participating in war games!

You do understand that the books you are giving credit for ‘original’ ideas stole from other books, right? I mean, hell, you gave The Hunger Games credit for ‘a hyperbolic and decadent upper class’. Really?Literature has been borrowing from other things since it’s literal beginnings. Don’t like a book, fine, but to…

I would call his books Sci-fi more than YA. I don’t know what makes things YA anymore - it doesn’t make any kind of sense. His books are good. And if YA is apparently so easy to write why don’t you do it?