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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Published 2008 (384 pages)
Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Game Trilogy has made an impact on young adults and adults alike. From a devoted following, a movie currently in production due to release next year (the second movie promised in 2013), and now as of June 6th of this year- Collins’s book The Hunger Games makes her the 6th person to sell over 1 million kindle books. This last achievement has Collins join the Kindle Million Club.
The first book in the Trilogy is entitled The Hunger Games which turns out to be a televised reality version of The Most Dangerous Game (the short story is available free from Manybooks.net). Although some might not like this Survivors tv show perspective, before the games begin the audience is drawn in by Collins’s rich characters and vivid imagery.
Katniss Everdeen is the main character and though she is only 16, she is a real survivor and avid hunter. Through an unfortunate chance of fate she finds herself taken from all that she has ever known to go to the Capital. Collins allows Katniss to act as narrator and provide an anthropologist point of view of Panem, explaining the culture, history, and animal and plant life from the eyes of a teenager. These detailed explanations of a new world and society allows the reader to become connected emotionally to the main character.
The plot is mixed with a struggle against the unjust government in what is left of the world (formerly known as America now known as Panem) after natural disasters and man made destruction. What’s left is 12 districts, with the first district acting as controlling government known as the Capital. In a classic move to control by fear, every year the capital holds a “Hunger Game” in which one girl and one boy (called Tributes) from each district will fight to survive. Which is in a gladiator style, where only one person will survive. Similar to the Romans, if the Tributes do not provide enough entertainment, the game will suddenly change. No one, but the makers of the game, know where or what the Tributes will face: snow, desert, jungle, or maybe wetlands. And most likely deadly animals.
Warning: This book will have you reading late into the night and the ending of the first book will make you want to run out to get the second book, Catching Fire. This book is not meant for young children, as the details during the hunger games can be graphic. Worth the time to read, as the plot allows the reader to step back and wonder what they would do in a similar situation. Which is Collins at her best, pulling the reader in by wondering “what’s next?”
Links:
Author’s Official Website.
Publisher’s website: Scholastic.
The Hunger Games on Facebook.
The author on Facebook.
The Hunger Games Trilogy Fansite: “Comprehensive Fansite Dedicated to The Hunger Games Trilogy Fans”
“Welcome to Mockingjay.net, the most visited source on the web dedicated to the Hunger Games! We were founded in July of 2009, before the title of the third book had been announced. We're here to have fun with other Hunger Games fans with discussion, contests, the Jabberjays podcast, and an up to date news blog that covers anything related to the books or the upcoming film that is being made by Lionsgate.”
The Hunger Games Wiki.
Official Movie website.
The Hunger Games, movie Information: IMDb.
These books are good and highly engrossing. But i think that the books were a bit fast paced and she left alot of things unsaid. They were good and moving amd katniss is an unforgettable hero. Sometimeit can be a bit gory and you have to put it down. Iam very mixed on this book but i reccommend it.
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