The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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Ever since I was I little child I have loved survival books. My parents read My side of the mountain (Jean Craighead George), Island of the blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell), and The Island Stallion Series (Walter Farley) to me every night. My dream as a child was to run away to a forest and live on the wild. Seeing as how I was surrounded by desert (I live in Tucson Arizona) that dream never came true. Those fantasies faded away as I moved onto other books, no other survival book I read could compare to the ones I had read as a child. Suzanne Collins’ book The Hunger games has brought back that desire to live in the wild again along with many other things twisted into this amazing novel.

 

The Hunger games Follows our heroine Katniss Everdeen as she is chosen as a tribute in the Hunger Games. The Novel is set in the future when North America is destroyed by some sort of disaster. The empire of Panem rose out of the rubble with thirteen districts that support it. The districts tried to overthrow Panem at one time but failed. As punishment for the rebellion Panem set up the Hunger Games. Each year one boy and one girl form each district are chosen at Random to participate in the Hunger games. They are put together in an arena of wilderness to fend for themselves while trying to kill each other off. The last person left standing is the victor of the Hunger games.

 

From the first sentence Collins had me. She painted a picture of a world of oppression and desperation that sprang vividly to life. It was the type of book that sweeps you away and completely immerses you into its world. While I read I felt like I could be standing right next to Katniss.

 

Not only is Collins world vivid, but her characters are too. So often in books we get the fierce heroine who has endless supplies of love for everyone, is gorgeous confident and awesome with her weapon of choice. Katniss is anything but that. She has many flaws and quirks that help define her as a real person. I won’t tell you any of her faults as that would give away some of the book, but suffice to say that I Love Katniss to bits.

 

All the other characters that appear in the book are all as unique and interesting as Katniss. Collins doesn’t try to make an interesting character, but makes characters interesting by giving them details that make them real.

 

The book also has a lot of political intrigue aspects, not only is there the suppression of the districts by the capitol, but there are politics involved it the Hunger games themselves as well.

 

The Hunger games are what kept me turning page after page, the survival mixed with politics and trying to appeal to the viewers to get sponsors creates a survival story unlike any I have ever read. It just sucks you in, one minute Katniss is running from her life from competitors and another she is calculating how best to present herself in the arena to get more sponsors.

 

Somehow amongst all the other things in the book Collins manages to fit romance into it too, not the soppy kind of fake romance, but an awkward real romance that feels endearing and exasperating at the same time.

 

The Hunger Games is an amazing novel and I absolutely can not wait for the next book in the series to come out. All I have to say to you is go read it now. It is fantasticly amazingly Splendiferous!

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