If it’s a daring story of survival, self-knowledge, and human limitations you’re after, then The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, will leave you hungry for more. In a stomach-lurching combination of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Gladiator, and even the recently released film, Death Race, The Hunger Games will leave you turning pages, your heart racing madly with hope and worry for the story’s unforgettable heroine, Katniss Everdeen.
When Katniss Everdeen’s little sister, Prim, is called forth from the lottery to participate in The Hunger Games–a televised fight to the death–Katniss willingly takes her place in an act of bravery rarely seen in any district in the conquered remains of North America. Now, Katniss, along with Peeta Mellark, will represent District 12 in The Hunger Games, where no one can be trusted and only one out of 24 contenders will return home alive. Cast out into a wilderness to survive on her own, Katniss is determined make it home; but perhaps the greatest challenge of all is to hold to her own values in the midst of a morally corrupt game of murder, pitting friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor. …» more
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