I am going to be honest I haven't finished the book yet. It started off good. There are a ton of books where characters have to go through trials so I wasn't even concerned that it's been done before. Until they started adding in the extras like the contestants are to attend a ball, and you can have your own seamstress to create your clothes, you have to have interviews in a stadium to show case your talents because the popular votes count? That's straight out of hunger games. The start of the book implied survival in the trails were based off your magical skills but during the interview chapter the author says they have impress the people cause it matters if they like her. I hope it gets better because those few elements made me not want to read the book if she's just copying the same premise as Hunger Games. There is writing taking inspiration from others then there is copying.