The Hunger Games

Look, the writing style is not of the highest quality or anything - the comma splices alone are sometimes incredibly distracting - but it is still so compelling! Even knowing everything that was going to happen, I couldn't stop reading.

However, I still hate hate hate hate the “girl torn between two love interests” trope that dominated YA fiction of this era. I didn't particularly care for it even when I was the target audience, so I definitely don't care for it now. Even so, I will give this 3.5 odds in your favor out of 5, rounded up.