Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Dystopian / Adventure / Action
Author: Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel for young adults. North America is now run by the powerful Capitol and is now divided into 12 districts (originally 13 but District 13 was destroyed), and is now called Panem. In the 12th District, there's Katniss Everdeen (16y/o) and Gale who hunts for a living. In order to keep the status quo and to remind the 12 Districts not to rebel, every year they hold a game of death, chosing 2 tributes per district via "draw". Katniss' sister was picked to be the tribute but then Katniss exercises her option to volunteer for the games. With Katniss comes Peeta, the baker's son. Together, they must fend for themselves and survive.
I got hooked with reading this because it has an interesting plot. Although, it's something that is socially and uhmmm morally not sound. The Hunger Games, I mean.
But, what I particularly liked about it was the love triangle between Gale, Katniss and Peeta. Can someone hand me at least a Gale or a Peeta? *giggles*
Anyway it was a breeze reading it. The author did not use any big words. It was simple but enough to give you the hand or play with imagination. The book tackled many things that can actually make people relate to: love, honor, freedom, rebellion, poverty, family, friendship and particularly survival. In the arena, you'd want to move from page to page since the suspense builds up and introduces many new creatures that came with technological evolution.
Anyway, this ain't something "intelligent", if you want to argue.. but it was successful enough to the audience it aimed for. And it's a good book to start or recommend if one wants to get into "reading". :)
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"The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel for young people. Northern U.S. is now operated by Capitol powerful and is currently divided into 12 districts (initially 13, but District 13 has been destroyed), and is now known Panem. At district 12, Katniss Everdeen has (16y / o) and Gale hunt people for a living. to maintain the status quo and to remind the 12 districts rebelled not, every year they organize a game of death, chosing 2 drain each district through "drawing." sister Katniss' has been chosen as tribute, but Katniss then exercises its option to volunteer for the games. With Katniss to Peeta, the baker's son. Together together, they must protect themselves and survive.. "they are trying and persevering, they will have a better fate, and this work is very popular with everyone
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