history for the back story between our time and theirs as well as thoroughly convince the reader he or she this could be a possible future because Collins made the world so different from ours to immerse the reader yet contain an eerie likeness to that of our own; this ended up being the backbone for the book's success. Now, if we are to look into the success of the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, we see an entire world generated and engineered to almost flawlessly mimic life itself.
Rowling knowingly decided to create an entire new world so magic would not seem so out of place, and she succeeded with flair. Unlike The Hunger Games, whose setting was mainly personified by the hardships of the districts, the Harry Potter Series contained a world based on magic and mischief but contained the same aspects of life we experience today such as a government, set laws, discrimination, politics, economic competition, career choices, and professional sports but all of which have a magical twist to them. Rowling executed it wonderfully, creating a dreamland filled with as many wonders and secrets as problems. She writes you into a world of her own creation, and she does things I'm surprised other authors don't seem to do, and that is give real conversations. The way the characters talk about stuff from the wizarding world really is how people talk about day-to-day stuff, and since the reader and Harry haven't lived in that world, you get a feeling of being out of place without feeling confused because they will talk about stuff that isn't crutial to the plot and sometimes isn't even mentioned again, and that's fine because when an author includes something, it has purpose and relevence to the story that is being told, and the purpose of writing in unnecessary aspects of the wizarding world is to better develope not just the wizarding world, but also the facade of entering said world. We cannot, however, rely on the pattern that the setting
can determine a book's worth. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer became a national phenomenon, loved by tween girls and hated by boys of
all ages. The reason for this book's success is still unknown to this day, but it has created a new wave of bad supernatural romances and permanently scarred vampires as a whole. A possible reason for Twilight's success may be due to its romantic ideals such as a partner who was waited thousands of years for you or the idea of a perfect soul mate, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that a suicidal teenage
girl falls in love with 1016 year old
People have even started making their own for non-Pixar movies as well.
The reason I say successful books have an "Anti-Formula" instead of not having a formula is because their formula is not having one. No two books can be similar; originality is key, and you only get one shot at a book idea, and if someone else has done something similar, whether it be in plot, social relationships, setting, or characters, before you, the slot has been taken, there is hardly any room room for it. That is why so many books are under-appreciated, their slot was taken by another book or multiple books, and the book was neglected the chance to be famous. Society is ever changing and it does not like repetition, so it can only handle a certain amount of each familiarities between books.
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