Excellent, excellent, excellent. I loved this book. It had action, it had romance, and it had a climax- resolution that was reminiscent of Harry Potter (you know the kind that starts in the middle of the book and you cannot put it down until you are though). Yep. just great.
The Hunger Games takes place after the fall of the countries in North America. All that was left was 13 districts and the Capitol of Panem. Panem is reminiscent of the idealist Russian Communist countries that were written about in the 1960s and the Districts, at some point before the book begins, rose up to fight against the Capitol. Each of the Districts were crushed except for District 13 which the Capitol could not put down, so they burned District 13 to the ground. As a reminder of the strength of the Capitol every year one boy and one girl are chosen from each of the districts to fight in an arena until the death. Their will be only one winner.
In this tale we learn about Katniss, one of the contestants of the seventy- third Hunger Games. We learn her background, her motivation, he strategy and the toll that it on her while she is in the arena trying to survive. As she is in the arena we witness Katniss develop two very strong relationships with two of the other contenders. One is with a young girl name Rue that seems to act as a sudo- sister for Katniss. The next is the other boy from District 12, Peeta. During the development of the relationship with Peeta you cannot help fall in love with him. Peeta is one of the few characters that I have grown so attached to in a book.
Must Read.
One note about the writing: There are many, many sentence fragment. In the beginning of the book I kept having to go back and reread the sentences to make sure that I understood them right. Didn’t have to though, it seems that I understood them exactly as they were written. This is just a warning; or really more of a heads up. If you read it just be aware, but I guarantee that you will be used to it by the first quarter of the book.
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