Girl in the Arena

Girl in the Arena seemed, at first, like it is a take on the Hunger Games. It is quite opposite of that. The GSA, Gladiator Sports Association, is a group of people who take 2 gladiators into the arena to fight to death for entertainment. This is where it differs from The Hunger Games. The 2 men (women fight too, but not to death) enter the arena for themselves. Nothing bad has happened to America, we're now just a messed up society. The main character, Lynie, was born to a gladiator father and has had 6 more, thus making her mom a "gladiator wife." Every time her father dies, Allison (the mom) remarries so as to not lose money. However, when Lynie's 7th father dies in the arena, her mom can't remarry any more. Lynie has 2 options: Marry her father's murderer; or fight to death against him in the arena. She grows to like this man, Uber, and doesn't know what to do. She could marry him and spend the rest of her life under cameras as she watches husband after husband die. The other option is no better: possibly cut her life short as the whole world watches. Her mother commits suicide then, leaving Lynie and her disabled brother Thad to fend for themselves.