The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

Scholastic Inc.

Katniss is a sixteen year old girl growing up in a poor city in the far future Appalachians. The powerful Capitol controls every one's lives, and to make sure that everyone remembers that, they hold the Hunger Games once a year. Two teenagers from each "district"or city in the futuristic country are thrown into a huge wilderness game board where they must fight to the death; the last person alive wins the game along with extreme wealth and prestige. Katniss soon finds herself slammed in the middle of this whole power trip and is forced to fight for her life and for all she believes in, even some things she doesn't.

WARNING: There are some blood-and-guts scenes but none of them are overly graphic.

Personal opinion:

I risk extreme persecution by saying this but I really didn't love this book. I didn't like Collins' writing style and the story line lacked a "wow factor," it just seemed too much like any other sci-fi book and was pretty predictable, for the most part at least. But at the same time, these are just finicky personal things and I really would recommend this book to someone who hasn't read a whole lot of sci-fi. There was more going on in the book besides just the Hunger Games so I liked that. All in all, I'd just have to say I'm neutral on this book.