People must be easily entertained, because I sure wasn't impressed. And I have valid reasons. This is the kind of content that comes from pressuring an author to write about something that they're not overly inspired about. The Hunger Games was far and away much better.
Progress of the plot of the BSAS was extremely slow and boring, a time-waster. If you're looking for plot twists, there are none! Too many extreme coincidences that were just too obviously placed just to make the plot work, and had me like, 'why was that thing there?' 'Oh, sure, like that would really happen.' Made my eyes roll more than once. Any an all deaths were insignificant, underplayed, and didn't really matter. I actually accidentally skipped over a death and had to go back and read it again because It was over in two sentences without emotion.
There's too many unnecessary characters that don't do squat to further the plot, it only creates un-needed boring fluff. Lucky Flickerman is beyond annoying. Coriolanus, the main character, seemed confused the whole time on what his morals or reasoning exactly was, I've never read about a more unrelatable, confused villian. Finally, there's too many references to food and what the characters are eating at any one given time, which really wore on me and was extremely unnecessary. Editors, what is your job exactly? Suzanne should consider writing a cookbook, not a novel!