I just started The Hunger Games yesterday, to see what the fuss is about, then I ended up staying up until about 2:30am reading it. I have ~80 pages left
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It's this new (well, I say 'new'; it's actually a couple of years old) series by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy. Creatively named, right! It's pretty much a dystopic future America, and every year, a bunch of kids have to participate in these gladiator-like fights and kill each other, until the last person standing is crowned the winner. Handy wiki link!
The books aren't exactly highbrow literature, and I'm still waiting on the second and third in the series to get posted to me (Catching Fire and Mockingjay), but it's easy to read and hard to put down. It's drawing a lot of comparisons to Twilight because of a love triangle that forms some kind of a subplot in the later books, which is completely unfair, since it's better written, the protagonist has a backbone and doesn't define herself by her boyfriend (nor does she even want a boyfriend), and there is some sort of social-political commentary in there. Plus the themes and the story are on the brutal side for YA fiction. I'd highly
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The books aren't exactly highbrow literature, and I'm still waiting on the second and third in the series to get posted to me (Catching Fire and Mockingjay), but it's easy to read and hard to put down. It's drawing a lot of comparisons to Twilight because of a love triangle that forms some kind of a subplot in the later books, which is completely unfair, since it's better written, the protagonist has a backbone and doesn't define herself by her boyfriend (nor does she even want a boyfriend), and there is some sort of social-political commentary in there. Plus the themes and the story are on the brutal side for YA fiction. I'd highly ( ... )
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