Book Review- The Hunger Games

It's good to be back! I am kind of ashamed to say that I did not read The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins until I saw that they were making a movie out of it. So many people recommended this series to me, but I did not listen. But now, I am here to tell you that the series is absolutely amazing and I could not put it down. I was also quite surprised at how well they transferred the first book onto the big screen, which is a lot of the time, a huge disappointment. But not in this case. So go grab the first book, then check out the movie when it comes out!


In order the books are: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mocking Jay

Summary

The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unidentified future time period after the destruction of the current nations of North America, in a Stalinist nation known as "Panem". Panem consists of a hugely rich Capitol, located in what used to be the Rocky Mountains, and twelve (formerly thirteen) surrounding, poorer districts which are under the hegemony of the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically futuristic, but the twelve Districts are in varying states of poverty – the trilogy's narrator and protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, lives in the poorest District 12, formerly Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a rebellion generations previous against the Capitol wherein twelve of the districts were defeated and the thirteenth purportedly destroyed, every year one boy and one girl from each of the remaining twelve districts, between the ages of twelve and eighteen, are selected by lottery and forced to participate in the "Hunger Games". The Games are a televised event where the participants, called "tributes", must fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena until only one remains. The winning tribute and his/her corresponding district is then rewarded handsomely with food and plenty. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to serve as a warning to the Districts to remind them of the Capitol's power and lack of remorse. (Source)