The Hunger Games

(United States)

I read and love all four Twilight books and decided it was time to hunt for a new book to read. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was it!

The Hunger Games

Summary

The Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy, and one of the best first books I have ever read.

The story is about a 16 year old girl named Katniss Everdeen, who lives with her mother and younger sister in Panem- the remains of what used to be the United States.

It's now divided into thirteen separate territories, called districts, and all the districts are controlled by one ruling body... the Capitol.

A long time ago, the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As a result, the Capitol negotiated the Hunger Games as part of their surrender. Each year, every district must select one girl and one boy to participate in the games.

The Hunger Games are an annual televised event in which the competitors from each district- 24 in all- must fight each other to the death. The only constant... kill or be killed. The last one left standing is deemed the victor.

This year, when Katniss's twelve-year-old sister is chosen by the lottery to appear in the Hunger Games... Katniss steps up to take her place.

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Our Review of the Hunger Games

This book was so good! I absolutely loved it. The action starts picking up right away and the story is both emotional and exciting.

Though I haven't yet started on the second or third volumes in this series, I am looking forward to getting them both.


My husband and I rent books online so we actually listened to the Hunger Games book in audio cd format and we highly recommend getting it in this format. The reader is great and listening to her makes the book that much more enjoyable.

Anywho... on with the review. Katniss is a young, but very strong and independent leading character and you can't help but like her for the simple fact that she does what needs to be done to take care of her family.

Even more, she's knows how to use a bow and arrow to hunt for her own food, she's not all wrapped up in teen angst and drama, and there's more to life for her... and everyone else who lives in the districts... than the opposite sex and shopping.

Life is hard for them. It's far from the happy place we usually get in fiction books for young readers and it's a nice change.

We loved the secondary characters just as much as the primary ones and love the fact that they're just as strong as Katniss is in each their own way.

All in all, this was a fantastic start to what we expect to be a really exciting series. We're anticipating lots of action for the second and third books and can't wait until Catching Fire arrives in the mail. The wait is killing us!!