Synopsis
A fight to the death - on live TV. The game show where you kill or die, and where the winner's prize is survival. In District 12, where Katniss Everdeen lives, life is harsh and brutal, ruled from afar by the all-powerful leaders of the Capitol. The climax of each year is the savage Hunger Games - where twelve boys and twelve girls from each District face each other in a murderous showdown. When sixteen-year-old Katniss is chosen to represent her district in the Games, everyone thinks it's a death sentence. Only one person can survive the horrors of the arena. But plucky Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature...
What Did We Think?
Votes were as follows: 3, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9.
this one of the rare young adult books which steps nicely into older readers territory. and at this point a great divergance from the loved up vampires previlant within the genre, it still follows the love triangle format. the scenario is excellently set as are the characters. but what a story from beginning to end it was difficult to put down, assimilating all the information would, and did require a second reading. the building up of the terror of the games itself is relentlas and thankfully does not disappoint. not to glorify in the violence but to show the fact that if we were put in that position, then just what we do. which story line the reader follows depends on how they read the story, which way will it go? the story is a complete 9.5. as an aside there is a book, The Girl Who Was on Fire, Leah Wilson, Jennifer Barnes, Mary Borse et al.
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