Book Twenty-seven: The Hunger Games

Book Twenty-six: The Hunger Games
Finished: May 28
Pages: 374

The Hunger Games is one of those books that so many people have talked about that I wasn't really sure whether I even wanted to read it or not. Books have a hard time living up to the expectations that others give. But, since it's the end of the school year, and one of the alternative end-of-year assignments was a book study over the book, I thought "what the heck" and checked it out of the library yesterday afternoon. I finished it in about 5 hours, if that is any indication of the quality of the narrative. It's not the best young adult novel out there, but the idea is interesting, and well written.
Here is the basic plot: America has been destroyed and rebuilt into 12 districts and a capital. The Capital keeps control over the districts by having the Hunger Games each year, where a boy and a girl from each of the twelve districts engage in a fight to the death on live television, and there can be only one winner. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen takes her twelve year old sister's place in the Hunger games, and then must prove to herself and the world whether she can survive.
The idea of The Hunger Games in general reminds me of a few other things, this Japanese book that I can't remember the name of, and "The Lottery." It was a good read, and I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes dystopian novels.
Good Reading,
Caitlin