The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A compelling yet simplistic adventure story of a dystopic future where teenagers might fight to death in a tournament called "The Hunger Games."  It is 'young adult' fiction and seems to stay true to that demographic. While I did find the plot interesting, there is little character development or prose of literary note, but at least I have an understand of this cultural trend.
In fact, sometimes the sentence structures were so simplified I was almost confused.
This one was worth it, the other two in trilogy wouldn't be.