My good friend Sam -and not the main character in my novel- suggested a few series for me to read. I'm thinking that our tastes in books is pretty similar -as are our horse's personalities- so I decided to listen to her. The first set of stories I was told to read was The Hunger Games. She warned me that I had to get past the violent tone of the the story, and that it was a simple read as its a young adult fiction novel. For Christmas my father got me an iPad (SWEETNESS, I know!) and the Barnes & Noble e-reader, the Nook, was a FREE App that I could DL onto my iPad. I purchased a couple mark Twain novels and Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, then looked to start DL more popular novels. The Hunger Games was the first.
The story is written in first person from Kaniss Everdean. She's 16 and lives with her mom and little sister, Primrose (a.k.a Prim) in "District 12". America no longer exists and the territory is distributed among 12 -used to be 13- districts; all of these are run by The Capital which likes to flex their metaphoric muscles by instituting a nationally publicized game: The Hunger Games. These "games" consist of taking one boy and one girl from each district and putting them in an arena -which is climate controlled by The Capital- where they must survive and fight to the death. There may be only ONE winner.
Enter in Katniss. Her little 12 yo, sensitive, sister's name is pulled out of the lottery, much to Kat's horror. So she volunteers to take her place -as Katniss is skilled in hunting, surviving, and living on little-to-no-food (hunting is illegal, btw). The boy from District 12 to be called is a guy named Peeta. Anyway, so their journey starts. Oh, and I forgot to mention that District 12, they rarely win the games. Out of 70+ years, there has only been 2 winners from Katniss's District. So without giving away alllll the story... I suggest you read it!!!!
The book is simply written, as I said, but somewhere along the line I got SUCKED in. Like a vacuum. Out of no where. I know its a good read when I'll be doing something else (like driving) and find myself itching to read the rest of the story. Its a little over 230 pages and goes by FAST. I inhaled this story! I believe its free of cussing, BUT BUT BUT is rather very violent, I will admit. Not for the faint of heart. Love the first one and can not wait to read the next two. Five hearts... totally. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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