Book review #1

The Hunger Games (2008)
Collins, Suzanne

Science Fiction

Rating: 9/10

Warnings: This book gets very violent at some points.

The Hunger Games is a very intense and exciting book that sucks you in until you can't put it down.  This book is about a character named Katniss Everdeen.  She lives in a place called district twelve which is the lowest of the districts with her mother, little sister Prim, and her best friend Gale. They are a very poor family so Katniss and Gale sneak into the woods to hunt and Katniss is very skilled with a bow and arrow.  This is basically how they feed their family.

Every year each district draws a boy and a girl to go to a competition to the death called the hunger games.  Katniss ends up going with a boy named Peeta Mellark which will be a major character towards the end of the book.  Katniss and Peeta will have to go into the games and fight for their survival, will they survive?  Read this book to find out.

While you read this book you realize that Katniss has a lot of rebellion and fight in her.  Also this book addresses poverty and the effects it can have on a family.  Another theme in this book is fighting between others and how conflicts are solved or not solved with war.

The hunger games is kind of slow at first but towards the middle and the end it becomes full of action and is very intense.  This book gives you a look at what it might be like to be under total control of the government and want it would be like to be very poor. This book is written in first person and the narrator is Katniss Everdeen.  This makes it so you see everything from Katniss' side of the story and what she thinks of things.

The intended audience of this book is young adults both boys and girls because while it is gory and full of action it also has very romantic and loving things that girls would like also.  This book would not be for younger children just because of how much it describes the deaths of people and even the romantic scenes would not be appropriate for young children.

I read the hunger games because I heard from people that it was a good book and that I might like it.  I would recommend this book because I think it has a lot of things that people like in it and I know that the boys would like the bloody parts.
Booklist said "Populated by three dimensional characters, this is a superb tale of physical adventure, political suspense, and romance." and also USA Today said "A plot-driven blend of suspense, science fiction, and romance."  I like this book and I think that most other teens would too.