Finally I decided to buy the Hunger Games after a lot of consideration since normally I tried to stay away from books who started growing a large fanbase and by looking at the book recommendation from Yahoo Answers I could definitely see its growing fanbase but I knew that since I'm trying to be a good reviewer I should try reading this book and here we are.Hunger Games is a book that was written by Suzanne Collins. It recieve a lot of positive review some of them were even by Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer.It was published on 2008 and became a besteller.
The High and Low
.The story was superbly told.
.The main characters were amazing.
.The cover was really great.
The bad
.I think that the author should have made some supporting characters like Thresh or Foxface more fleshed out.
Quick Summary
The story is set in the future in a country called Panem.Every year the capitol will randomly choose 1 boy and 1 girl from all 12 district to fight until there are only 1 left to show their punishment for trying to rebel in the past.Katniss Everdeen volunteered herself(because her little sister was chosen)and a boy named Peeta Mellark(they are from district 12) they were quickly taken from crowd and into a house where the capitol allowed one hour for them so that their family and friends could at least see them one more time there she was visited by her sister,her mom,Madge(her friend),Gale(her best friend) and Peeta Mellark's dad who was a baker where she usually sells her squirell to.After their meeting they are taken to the train and that's is where they meet their mentor Haymitch he was the only previous winner from district 12 that is still alive so he will be the one mentoring them on how to survive but the drawback is that he seemed for interested in drinking than to help them to survive.............. I dont want to tell any spoiler so that's the end of the summary.
The conclusion
Hunger Games is a book that is definitely getting it's momentum.I can already imagine this book as a hit and it is probably going to get a movie.While I do try to avoid this kind of book,normally I would only read books like this just before watching the movie since I'm trying to avoid the longness to watch the movie if the book is really good.Truthfully Hunger Games is a great book to read.The story was well told,The story had little bit of dark tone that you could really going to feel the story really well.I was also amazed with the major characters,the author knew what were she going to do with them,she gave me a way to sympathize with them even Cato who showed that his action was based on the Capitol's fault.The cover was really nice I had a choice between a picture of Katniss or Peeta(I bought the one with the picture of Peeta)I was quite dissapointed with on how she didn't explore more on some minor characters but perhaps the point was knowing that they were supposed to kill each other even when they didn't know who was who to survive and maybe she didn't show the other district's contestant so much because the author was showing a custom in their world where nobody from the capitol actually cared for anyone in the games or maybe she just thought it wasn't that important(which actually is0.Hunger Games is definitely a great book that I would gladly recommend it to almost everybody.
Rating:9 out of 10
Sunday, July 11, 2010
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