Allegedly, the new Hunger Games

For a long time books are touted only as "the new XY" or "the / the new XY-writer / in", as if the readers to make not independently capable of an idea. It's annoying, but sometimes anticipated.
Even "The Testing" comes as a marketing ploy by praising "the new Hunger Games". In fact, the similarities and parallels are however readily apparent. Dystopian future, the remaining or surviving world is fragmented in different colonies, some of which are very isolated and their residents live purist. Then someone comes out of the capital to a group of fresh graduates take a handful of young people for "the testing" - more I need not reveal the content at this point.
It seems in any case very similar to what still needs to be bad but in itself. However, the story for my taste starts a bit slow, a certain expectation is there and is operated and little flat. The text balks at the more, it seems half-baked and would perhaps even the odd month coped in proofreading. The writing style often jolts and many characters are flat or even stereotype Decals. The problem arises, however, if no connection can be made to the main character. I do not find sympathetic, but I have to be at least interested to want to follow their history - was for me, unfortunately not the case.
Perhaps the story would have taken up to pace and Stockem in narrative flow would have been intercepted by the action in the testing, but as far as I did not. After 100 pages, I gave up. For me, unfortunately, a generic-YA dystopias novel, which has no unique selling point and works with 0815-set pieces. Pity!