In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death … it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Still, if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
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Loved it.
Spoiler Alert: And they all die in the end.
The story follows a young 16-year-old girl, Katniss Everdeen, who offered herself for her younger sister in the yearly reaping of the Hunger Games. It makes her the hero to the people of the Capitol. They are the enforcers of the the yearly slaughter of children that the citizens excitedly call entertainment. The Capitol designed the Hunger Games to place 24 children, 1 girl and 1 boy reaped from each of the 12 districts, into an Arena to kill each other, with one surviving Victor. Katniss is the girl from her district, and is put into this Arena with her male counterpart, Peeta Mellark. As the pages of the book turn, you find heroes to root for and the lines of morality tested.
This book (and overall trilogy) is a great favorite of mine for the action, love and hard choices made by Katniss and the supporting characters. It brings to mind the considerable aspects of how a society could crumble, and how one must find a way to rise from the ashes.
Age recommendation: 13+
Some violence, gore, and romance. I found no mention of any LGBT. Pretty clean in terms of language.
Super good book
Perhaps, having heard about the story before hand, my expectations were too high. As dystopian teen survival fiction goes, it was pretty good. Not really my favorite genre, but a pretty well developed world and characters.
there was an amazing plot and was written well
What a great read!
Really enjoyed book 1, finished book 2 but bored by book 3. Highly recommend book1 for its energy and voice of character
couldn’t put it down
The best of the Trilogy. Read it and No. 2 and skip the third one unless you are really hooked on the series.
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I love the way Suzanne tells a story. This series is a page-turner for real. I love the courage this book brings to life. It was nice to see someone stand up for themselves and WIN! I think the stories were very good. I would recommend.
This book changed my life. It’s a MUST read. There’s not much more to it than that.
LOVE this trilogy!! Read it several times. Great YA book for the genre. Sets the bar high!
Very well done (the whole series)
Girl on Fire!
Loved the characters, the story, the pacing. This story so sucked me in, it made me buy the whole series.
Loved this book! Couldn’t put it down before reaching for the next one!
I love that this was an original idea. A unique world/ society. the characters were built well. The books are sooooo much better than the movies.
It helps define heroism in a realistic way.
As usual the book is better than the movie…if you have watched it but haven’t read it I recommend reading it!!