Hunger Games A4

Name: Taylor Fernandez
Class: A4
Book: Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Pages: 374
Rating: *****

Reccomendation: This book is great for people who are looking for a new type of adventure. This book has excitement, fear, and a couple of good laughs. Hunger Games is light reading so you get through it fast and it keeps your attention the whole time.

Summary: Katniss Everdeen lives in the land of Panen which is a great big capitol with 12 different districts. Katniss, her mother, and beloved sister Prim (age 12) live in the most poor district of them all: District 12. In Panen the government is really cruel and keeps all the districts in line by drawing the names of 2 children from each district(ages 12-18) to participate in the "Hunger Games", a battle to the death on live television. Whichever district has the last child standing gets food for the rest of the year and will not go hungry. On the day of the drawing for the Hunger Games Katniss's little sister gets her name drawn. Katniss is willing to do anything it takes to save her sister so volunteers to take Prim's place in the Hunger Games. So she and a baker's son named Peeta are the 2 representatives from District 12. Together Katniss and Peeta go into the Hunger Games willing to try to win, but expecting to get killed in the process...

Explanation of Rating: Hunger Games is the most intense and exciting book I have read in 2010 (so far). It has adventure, a little romance, some sci-fi, and new twists around every corner. This book got me to look at the human race as barbaric in sense. Because these children go into the Hunger Games and just kill total strangers and while reading I did not even think much of it. I also liked this book because it was not another Twilight love story with some monsters. It has a whole story that many people could get interested in, not just all the teenage girls. Another reason I like this book is because I think it could be turned into a really great movie! It would not be very hard to do and it really is such a cool story that I think a lot of people would get into it.

Favorite Passage: "Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death."