Everyone is hungry for Hunger Games
What a great read! This fast paced series by Suzanne Collins is set in a dystopian version of North America's future. Its a pretty bleak place to live, The Panem, with it's peace keepers that kill for stealing and where people starve from hunger every day.
The story begins almost a century after a rebellion. The punishment: Two young people are chosen by lottery to represent each of the 12 Districts of Panem and must fight to the death on a reality TV show. Was the 13th District really annihalated during the rebellion or could it be a place to escape the dictatorship in which the people now live?
The Hunger Games Trilogy is officially a teen series but the books have taken off like Twilight and Harry Potter and are being read by adults everywhere.
Even Stephen King who reviewed the first book for Entertainment Weekly thinks the young adult category is wacky. He says “Young Adult Novel” is right up there with terms like “Jumbo Shrimp” and “Airline Food”! Although the plotline includes a standard “love triangle” the action soon takes over to become a “violent, jarring speed-rap” adventure. King says he just couldn’t put it down. I agree!
The movie has, of course, been optioned and there are numerous videos on YouTube.
The Audiobook of the first book is also excellent.
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