The Hunger Games

In this kick-butt action book Suzanne Collins has shown us that a girl can be just as good as the main character as any guy. The book starts when a girl named Katniss is hunting in the forbidden woods of what is now called District 12 of a post-apocalyptic U.S. controlled by what is called The Capitol. The Capitol is a city in the Rockies that rules the districts with an iron fist. For example, every year it forces a boy and a girl from each district to compete in what is called the Hunger Games, where they are all put in an arena to fight to the death and only one can win. So Katniss has to come back from hunting for food because she must go to see whose names have been picked. Shockingly, she hears her little sister's name called and she becomes frantic to save her sister, Prim. So she actually volunteers herself to go in place of her so Prim will be able to stay.

Now Katniss has to be able to survive in an arena for days with people trying to kill her and living off of the land. Luckily she has her hunting skills or else she would be as good as dead in that arena. Though she also has some extra edge because of a romance between her and the boy from District 12, which just may be the key to their survival. Which either may or may not be a real romance. Though the whole time Katniss is in the relationship she wonders about her friend Gale and how he must feel about it because he likes her too. Which actually is sort of the love triangle in Twilight just 100 times better because Katniss can actually take care of herself. Where Belle is hopeless and completely dependent on her two boyfriends to save her. Katniss has the ability to make this predicted book trilogy into a great movie trilogy (which is actually happening). She has the skill to do well in that arena but I always think that she might not be able to actually kill someone. In this book you're not really sure if she will until it comes right down to it. All the while keeping you guessing about that love triangle. In addition, like everyone else in her district, she thinks the Hunger Games are a terrible thing and she needs to show the Capitol that. I also wondered if Katniss could show the Capitol while I was reading the book. Though how or if she does will both surprise you and make you love the book even more. Almost everything that she does is the book is unusual and really effective. If you wish to find out you will be completely satisfied as I was and be hooked into the series until you finish the third book.
Grade:A