The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Paperback, 441 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2018 by Scholastic.

ISBN:: 978-1-4071-9223-9

(25 reviews)

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.

When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

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5 stars

This book came with high praise from all my friends, so I had high expectations. It starts slowly but entertains well enough. I would like to know more about Panem and how this all came about, the fragments of information were quite captivating.

It really picks up immensely once the Hunger Games actually begin, and you start caring about the tributes. At the end, it left me wanting to pick up the next book eagerly, with its cliffhanger ending, and I am greatly looking forward to reading Catching Fire.

Considering I just recently watched my co-workers go nuts over Junglecamp on TV, with its TV romance and the audience waiting to have the contestants rip each other apart (at least verbally, not physically), it's a disturbing look at reality TV and oppression.