Hunger Games Left Me Hungry For More

Kat is a 16 year old in a post apocalyptic North America, she has a younger sister named Primrose and they do their best to survive each day with their mother. Her father died in a tragic mining accident, and she had to step into the role of provider at an early age. Using the hunting skills he taught her, she spends most of her days hunting illegally in the woods for meat and other forms of sustenance. Not so bad right?Wrong. The real tragedy is the regime that they live under, a terrifying monolithic monarchy known as The Capitol. The Capitol is in the center of 13 different districts (12 of them inhabited) that are ruled under the iron hand dictatorship. The districts are doled out food and supplies as the Capitol sees fit, and they are kept in near destitute conditions to ensure that they remain culled and controllable. The most atrocious actions of the Capitol take place once per year, when they host "The Hunger Games".A competition that forces each district to submit a
boy and a girl between the age of 12-18 to a barbaric contest. They are taken to an arena of gargantuan proportions, and there they are pitted against each other in a battle of mortal combat, survival, and keen intellect. The boy or girl who out survives the others garners favor for his or her district. The Capitol allocates special food stuffs and supplies for that next year to all the peoples of the victor's homeland.Suzanne Collins' writing is simple yet powerfully thought provoking. There are only a handful of books that I have ever read that made me as nervous as Hunger Games did. Katniss is submitted to the games, and she must kill and outsmart her peers from the other districts in order to survive. THIS BOOK IS THE FEMALE EQUIVALENT TO ENDER'S GAME. Some of you may understand my feelings towards Orson Scott Card's masterpiece, and if you do, you know what an immense compliment I just bestowed on Suzanne Collins. This is a must read scenario people. Go get a copy, or I
will loan you mine. (I promise that if my children want to escape my wrath, they will read Ender's Game and NOW Hunger Games)

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