pamela
Written on Jun 4, 2020
The simplicity of The Hunger Games is one of the reasons I think it really works so well. It tackles complicated topics and manages to world-build without being overwhelming and resorting to infodumps. Instead, we experience the world through the characters, and we only know what it salient to the plot and what it's trying to say. As an adult reader I am interested in the politics behind Panem, and how and why people are so willing to accept the central conceit of the Hunger Games themselves, but because that's not how we experience the story, it doesn't detract from the reading experience.
Honestly, this series is genuinely just great. I think everyone should read it, and makes a great introduction to YA dystopia as a genre. It's one of the best examples of it.