Reading the Hunger Games

2/23/2010

So yesterday I began reading the book The Hunger Games. I expected the good ratings from it from myself, but got more than what I expected. Just the beginning tells me it's an amazing book! I'm a fairly frequent reader and I've read many different types of books with different age groups, genres, and durations, but The Hunger Games is in a close second to the Harry Potter series.
The books I've read, including Harry Potter, Warriors, Twilight, Shiloh, and many more, are all fairly different books and in many different areas on my scale of critique. It may hit some people in the face, but Twilight wasn't a favorite of mine and, no, I haven't read the entire series. I've only read to New Moon. But anyway, books are a great source of entertainment and I think all of them had to have good reasons to be published, so I'm not against any other people's opinions on the books they like and dislike.
But anyway, The Hunting Games. It's a great book. I'm not finished yet, I'm only on page 211. If you haven't read it, it's about a girl named Katniss who lives with her little sister and mother in a poor district, District 12, in the former North America called Panem. The Hunger Games are a yearly event that requires every boy and girl of a district who are between the ages of twelve and eighteen to enter their name at least once into a drawing. The drawings choose one boy and girl from each of the twelve districts to fight to the death in a huge arena to give food and prizes to their district. It's all on T.V., too.
So Katniss enters her name multiple times for her family to recieve grain and oil. This multiplies her chances of getting chosen, though she has more names anyway from being fifteen (each age has a required amount of names entered). Her little sister is twelve and only enters once. A very slim chance out of thousands of names.
Anyway, the drawing comes and out of thousands of names, Primrose (Prim), Katniss's little sister, gets drawn and, terrified, Katniss volunteers for her. Now, Katniss has to play the games and, at the part that I'm at, she's in the games creating allies and plans on how to survive while she faces the Gamemakers' plans against the players to keep the show interesting.
In conclusion here, I'd definately reccomend this book to any readers looking for an adventuristic book with interesting characters and huge twists.

Wolf