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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A dystopian take of a young girl who takes her sisters place in a competition to the death. It’s really thought provoking and sad.
My first YA book as an adult, and it completely changed how I saw books for teens. The gold standard.
I liked how everything is real it’s sad at the end though it is a story about a girl (Katniss) and how she gets caught up into so much more than she meant to when she volunteered to take the place of her 12 year old sister, Prim, into almost certain death she survives and becomes the cymbal of a revolution against the government only to have the …
I loved this book!
Love this book! Wonderful characters and a great plot! I’ve read this book so many times that I’ve almost completely memorized chapters 19-27! Yay! I recommend for anyone who finds almost unhealthy obsessed with dystopian – I get it!
Unforgettable, but not necessarily in a good way. After reading the whole series I swore I’d never go back and read it again…but I did, though it was several years later, after a watched the movies. The story is horrific, but the characters are so well-drawn, real and appealing in the way they deal with the challenges (to put it mildly) that …
OMG I love these books so much. They were original, fast-paced and pulled you in from the first page on. If you wanna read a book that leaves you breathless, this series is it.
Read this book before the movie release.
Excellent story line and characters!
I’ve since acquired the complete series in both hardback and dvd!
Sci fi/ dystopian wasn’t a favorite but after reading this book and subsequent books I do delve into them now and then…
If you’ve seen the movies ,I highly recommend you read the books too…you may …
5 stars to Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. Such a popular series, so many people have read it or watched the movies… do I really need to do a review? But since I’ve put it in my top 20 favorite books, isn’t there an obligation to review it?
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Let’s make it simple… it may be young adult, and it may be fantasy, but neither of those …
The thrill of this book enlightens me and is recommended to people of all ages for sure. The character traits are amazing and this is a a very entertaining book to read. #unpredictable
This may be a young adult series; but I know many older adults who read and love the series. Excellent read.
I used Audiobook for the trilogy and I loved every minute of it. The action the story the characters draw you in for a great classic YA novel
I always recommend the book over the movie. It is so much better and you can really get into the characters. The ready of the series is even better than the first.
I LOVE this book sooooo much 🙂
I loved how incredibly original and blown away I am by this book. By this series. I read it so long ago and I own the actually hardcovers and I read it again so many times because I think it’s amazing. This book makes me want to fight. Like I imagine myself in a world like that. I hope it never comes to that because I do not think I would be …
Loved this series! The movies were good, but the books were so much more!! You can’t get inside a character’s head in a movie like you can in a book. The internal struggles Katniss goes through lend this series so much more depth. Love it!
If you haven’t seen the movies, or if you have, this is better! Cliche, I know. But there’s so much more depth in the characters in the books!
I was hooked, like a fish lured to a fishing hook, caught, that’s what it felt like with taking a taste of the first chapter, it was a good taste, the taste of lemon pepper flavoured skipjack tuna, canned.
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This was like camping on your own with a penknife, defensive, waiting with abaiting breath of how Katniss, with her bow and arrows, was going …
When I decided to read this- it was because it came so highly recommended. I even thought it might be overplayed- but I was proven wrong! @Suzanne Collins is a great author! Read this book!