"Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is on my top ten favorite books list. You have a love triangle, you have suspense, plenty of life and death situations, and it's a first person perspective book! What's not to love?

Katniss Everdeen lives in a world where everyone is split up into twelve districts. One district is know for growing crops, one is known for fishing, others make beautiful things like jewelry in which everything is given to the Capitol. The Capitol runs everything. The districts had an uprising almost 75 years ago in which the thirteenth district was annihilated, and as punishment for the rest of the district the capitol made the Games. Each year the Capitol officials come to the districts and do a drawing. They take one boy and one girl, give them a week of preparation and television time to try and get sponsors, then they throw all twenty four kids into an arena to fight to the death. Whoever the last living person is they get to go home and be pampered with a nice house and lots of money. None of which amend  the emotional and traumatizing memories from the arena. For the districts it's the worst possible time, having their children or their friends ripped from their arms practically sentenced to die. For the Capitol it's the best survival television show everyone likes to bet on. Katniss's district is the poorest one, near time for the games they can enter their name into the drawing extra times in return for food. Katniss has entered her name every year since she turned twelve. Since her father died she's had to provide for her and her little sister Prim. Their mother was just to out of it. This year will be Prim's first time getting her name put in the drawing. Katniss prohibits her from entering her name in extra. The day of the drawing Katniss had her name in their about twenty times, there were still thousands of other girls though. She wasn't worried about it. The Capitol official pulls out the girls name for this years game, but instead of feeling relief, Katniss's heart drops. The name was Prim's. Katniss starts yelling trying to get to her sister through the crowd, only to be held back. Then she screams. "I volunteer! I'll go into the Games in Prims place! I volunteer!"


 I'm going to assume by this point almost everyone who plans on reading this book has read it. For you people who haven't read it because you saw the movie and didn't like the movie, Don't judge a book by it's movie, The book is almost always better. Get on The Hunger Games Trilogy Train! Start reading the book and let the Games begin.




                                                                                                                                                                    Rating 5 out 5.