The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

by Suzanne Collins

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be North America. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.

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May 26, 2020

Star Rating: —> 5 Stars

RE-READ ! As amazing as ever.
I loved re-reading this after finishing The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I wanted to compare... and it is pretty eye opening.

EDIT: I take back the comments/ questions below regarding Katniss’ motivations (now in brackets) !!!!! Maybe in THIS book there might be a strange slight similarity (though in opposite ways... opposite sides of the struggling of Panem after all), but 3/4 through Catching Fire again...

NO. DAMN. WAY. is it more than that!

Sure, she doesn’t always make the best decisions, but she makes them with good intention & love IMO. God, what I implied might come from Katniss in just two sentences was TREASONOUS, haha !


[ Motivations and all... eerily similar. ]

I still think Katniss is the MC who is more in the right who IS in the right... oppressed and forced into violence... pushing back to right the Capitol’s wrongs— no, a TYRANT’S wrongs, where Snow wants CONTROL, to no end. Katniss wants just & fair treatment for her loved ones, in the districts, & in general.

[ BUT will the books to come create more of a dreaded balance in motivation?]
I don’t quite think so. I have more faith in her than that.

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