Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Nov 21, 2009 by shanyn

Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publish Date: September 14, 2008
Hardcover / 374 pages

From Goodreads.com:

As I have mentioned before, I am often found reading the forums on Paperbackswap.com. I also keep up with my Google Reader – all of the bloggers and readers in both places raved and raved about The Hunger Games. I did not know the plot summary or anything about the author. I did not know it was part of a series. I did not know when the book came out. Basically? I knew nothing except that everyone loved it.

I decided that maybe I should read this one, so I put myself on the hold list at the library. I wait several weeks, and find out it’s on an inter library loan and was due weeks ago – which means it’s probably not coming back anytime soon. I posted this on a Paperbackswap forum while I was talking about what I was reading at the time, and one of the members on there generously offered to read both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire (the sequel) and send them to me!

YAAAAAYYYYY!!

As soon as they came in the mail, I started to read. Luckily, I had originally planned on having a lot of time to read that weekend.

It took approximately one page to suck me in. Collins does a great job of telling the story while making sure you have enough information – and there really are a lot of things you have to learn. If you skipped over the plot summary above, you should go back and read it – it does a better job of explaining what goes on in the book than what I could. The characters are ones that you connect to, and the events that happen are so unexpected you find yourself wondering what’s going to happen over and over again. One of my favorite parts is that everything doesn’t just happen for the good of things – just because you start liking a character does not mean that everything will go the best way for that person, which makes it a very intense read.

I ended up liking it so much I immediately recommended it to my fiance, and he read it all in one day – he loved it too. My recommendation is that you get your hands on a copy of this book!

Book Cover: 5/5
Book Title: 5/5
Plot: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Writing: 10/10
Ending: 10/10

Overall: 50/50

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