The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Reviewer: Denise Z.
Summary: In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control
through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people
from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old
Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her
younger sister's place.
Review:Pretty much everyone has heard of The Hunger Games with its popular following in both print and film.
I admit I watched the movie before I picked up the first book in the series.
However, it was the movie that made me want more detail and the book does not
disappoint.
Suzanne Collins does a brilliant job describing the post-war
futuristic America now called Panem and of The Hunger Games that are put on
each year. After Katniss finds out her younger sister has been picked to fight
to the death with other children from various other districts, she volunteers
herself in order to save her sister from the games’ barbarism. Since a boy and
a girl from each district must be picked as a way to remind each district of
the war fought, Peeta, a boy also from District 12, has been chosen to go with
Katniss.
Collins takes the reader on an exciting journey with a
female protagonist in a world like no other. I enjoyed reading her depictions
on their bleak surroundings during the games and how each character felt and
reacted different. I’ll be reading the rest of the series.
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