I have a pile of books to review for you.
So this is just a teaser.
Don't hold your breath - they're teen fiction or gay non-fiction, so perhaps of limited interest.
Battle Royale is one of them though. Having read The Hunger Games trilogy.
Crikey me, the author liked similar names!
You know when people say "I'm terrible with names but I never forget a face!"
Well it turns out if the names are foreign*, I'm terrible with names as well as faces (I already knew about faces, foreign or not).
* NOT a xenophobic or racist statement, but I know no-one called Yukie, Yuko or Yoka so when they all turn up
in the same scene I forgive myself for being a little confused as to character and motivation. Not to mention Yukiko, Yumiko and Yoshimi. And yes, I did just look those up