The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Winning will make you famous.
Losing means certain death.
In a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed.
When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.
I got told about this book after a few (ok, quite a lot) of my friends said it was excellent. So, I read it.
It seems kinda gruesome from the blurb, but the way it's written makes it seem less awful. One thing I didn't get was how no one had any trepidation about killing other people, but maybe that's because I read The Knife of Never Letting Go and it was SUCH a big thing in it. However, it worked well, and I enjoyed it.
A word of warning: if you do read this book, don't bother reading the others in the trilogy. They will ruin it for you.
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