I’m sure many of you have heard that The Hunger Games movie is coming out next Friday and that the film is based on the best selling books by Suzanne Collins. I checked the book out from here at least twice, but I never got a chance to read it. I finally just purchased a paperback copy and got around to reading it last week. I now know what all the fuss is about- the book is fantastic!
The gist of the story is that the USA is broken down into twelve Districts, plus The Capitol. Each year the aristocracy forces each District to submit two Tributes (one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18) to compete in a to-the-death game of survival called The Hunger Games as punishment for District 13 rising up against The Capitol 70-some years previous.
The book is excellent- it’s told in a riveting, no frills kind of way, and you really identify with the protagonist because you understand that she’s doing whatever it takes to survive to give her family a better life. There’s a love story too, but it’s more of a fabricated one for The Games at this point in the series, but I know it’s developed into a more robust as the series continues.
I really want to read Catching Fire, but every copy is checked out or on hold in the system. Pooey.