The Hunger Games
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
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Like most twelve year olds in 2014, I was obsessed with the Hunger Games, I would constantly watch it and talk about it, and even on a few occasions, I was more than happy to act out the bloody events that I failed to truly understand at that age. However, despite how obsessed I was with Suzanne Collins' masterpiece, I only read the books once each. Maybe it was because I found them too harrowing in comparison to the other things I was reading, b...read more
I read this book years ago, but it had been a while, so I decided to reread it again. I'd forgotten a lot of the details from the book, since I more recently saw the movie, but I really love Katniss's character and how she's not a particularly likable person, as opposed to someone who you always want to root for all the time. Or rather, you want to root for her, but also it's easy to become frustrated at her at the same time. I also thought that ...read more
Second read: This is such a great book. It is written really well and is very detailed and easy to picture what is going on. The plot and storyline are also both amazing and very entertaining throughout the entire book. My favorite part was when Katniss sent the tracker jackers on the Careers, and my favorite character was Rue; I liked her personality. It was so sad when she died, but I liked the song Katniss sung to her before she did. The most ...read more
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