This book is the first in a three part series and is named after the Hunger Games, the lethal games the characters battle in throughout the book. Their country, Panem, gets divided and the people of the Capitol decide to create the Hunger Games so the people will never forget the suffering from the rebellion. The games are also in place as a reminder to not try to rebel again, to live just as you are, stagnant.
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic
September 2008
The main character Katniss, immediately captures your heart with her undying love for her family. You find out why she has such a passion for hunting and how the loss of her father has affected her family. Throughout the book you painstakingly read on while she makes tough decisions and is thrown into situations that a teenager should never endure.
As the book goes on, more die in the intricate arena of the Hunger Games and you are introduced to a dozen more characters, each slowly seeping into the heart of Katniss, some even without her knowledge.
At first I thought this book was going to be just like those movies where people are sacrificed for sport and set on a remote island to fight to the death for amusement for the people watching. In a way this book exhibits similarities from those movies, but the book doesn’t focus on just the fighting, but the fight within the characters. This book was more than just about fighting to the death; it showed the emotion and terrible choices that people had to make in the arena.
I loved this book!
