Hunger Games Overview SPOILER ALERT

The novel The Hunger Games contains a great story line that keeps the reader hooked from the first chapter. Unlike some of the other books this one seems to appeal to a wider audience, since it contains action and violence, a future post war society, and a love story all intertwined within each other. Also the author does a great job of giving the story many twists so the reader can not predict what will happen next and therefore they will not get bored with the book. The writing the author uses is easy to follow and gives great images of the environment and of the people. Also Suzanne Collins really allows you to know the characters on a more personal level, which makes the book that more interesting to find out what will happen to these fictional characters. An example of this would be when Katniss describes her fellow tribute, Rue, as looking a lot like her sister, this allows the reader to connect to her and really feel bad when she is killed since the reader also fells a connection with sweet innocent little Prim. Another aspect of this book that I enjoy is that even at the end of the first book, with the Hunger Games over, it still leaves with the reader eager to know what will happen next and begins reading the next book in the trilogy. This can be also seen as a negative part of the book since some people might not want to wait to get the second book and want the answers then and there. A down side of the book is that at parts it is hard to follow since there are 24 tributes within the arena you start to forget who has died and who hasn’t, and at the beginning of the games you do not know all of the tributes’ name, making it harder to understand at parts. This small flaw can be overlooked since if the author were to go in depth with all of the characters, making the reader attached to each of them it would defeat the purpose that Katniss is the main character and that the reader is suppose to be cheering for her to win and not one of the other tributes. Also if the author had to explain all of the tributes the book would have to be a lot longer and would just drag on at some parts. The creativity of the novel is incredible, from the idea of having children fight to the death for entertainment to all of the mutants that she puts in the story. Suzanne Collins created a future world with so much detail that it feels real and where the characters come to life. She also adds in political aspects as well, but those are not well seen until the end of the first book. I would highly recommend this book to a number of people since it can appeal to such a large audience. Any one of my friends would love this book, from my guy friends to my girl friends, since the boys will love it for the action, fighting and violence while the girls will enjoy it for the love story and the strong female main character. This is personnel one of my favorite books, the main reason that I like the novel so much is that it is very hard to predict what will happen, which I enjoy. If I can predict what will happen right at the beginning, then what is the point of reading it, but this book is not like this at all. In fact after reading this novel I have recommended it to some of my friends, one of who is reading it right now so he can watch the movie.