Sooo, I'm sure we've all
heard about the book The Hunger Games
by Suzanna Collins, especially since the movie just came out. Like seriously...
EVERYONE knows about it now. I actually just bought the series just because I
wanted to watch the movie and for some reason, before watching any movie- I
have to read the book first.. yeah I'm a nerd like that.
This book is addictive!
I used to be like vampire obsessed and crazy about Twilight... but this book
like legit replaced vampires in my heart. Lol it took me less than a day to
finish this book and like in case it isn't already obvious enough, I LOVEDDDD this
book.
Taylor Swift actually
got a signed copy of the first book from Suzaane Collins for like 2 of her songs
that I believe are a part of the soundtrack for the movie... grrr I’m so
jealous >.<
At first, I didn’t even
know what The Hunger Games was about,
I just heard about it because it’s super popular now. It was on my imaginary
list of books to read but I never got to it until the day before the movie was
in theatres. It’s been compared to Twilight a lot so I was kinda expecting
vampires to be everywhere... I really don’t know what I was expecting. But I
found that this book definitely explains the storyline amazingly well. Before
any “Twihards” get their hopes up, this book is completely unrelated to
vampires... I actually think that I’m the only person who was expecting
vampires.
This book is about a 16
year old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District 12. Panem is the “shining
Capitol” surrounded by 12 districts which I sorta think of as like... provinces
or states or cities... so basically the Capitol is the ... well Capitol of the
country and it takes place in the future in the ruins of North America. And
every year, as sorta like a reminder and annual punishment because of the war
the rebellions started and the Capitol won, each district draws a boy and a
girl from ages 12-18 to be tributes in the Hunger Games. This year will be the
74th Hunger Game.
So when you’re 12 you enter your name once and
when your 13 twice and when you’re 14, 3 times and so on until you’re 18. Or
you could enter for tesserae for grain
and oil and that’s like when you put your name in an extra time to get
tesserae that’s enough for one person. For example, Katniss is 16 so it’s mandatory
that she enters her name 5 times... but because she has a house hold of 3 to
take care of she enters her name 20 times to have enough tesserae for herself,
her mom, and her sister (Primrose).
When Prim is drawn to be
the girl tribute from district 12, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and Peeta Mellark (the boy tribute from
district 12) are taken to the capitol to train for I believe 2 weeks to fight
to death in an arena on live TV. While she’s saying goodbye to her friends and
family, Madge, the mayor’s daughter and probably her only friends besides Gale
who’s her best friend, gives her a golden pin of a mockingjay for good luck. A
mockingjay is a mix of a jabberjay (a mutant bird that the Capitol created to
eavesdrop on the rebels that we’re like.. failures beause the rebels caught on
and gave the jabberjays false info) and mockingbirds. Only one tribute will be left standing and
they’ll be named a victor. When you
become a victor... ur like a celebrity, and you get like loads of money and
other privileges.
Now I don’t wanna like
spoil the whole entire story but I’m tempted to :/ ... but I hope you guys get
a good enough idea of what this book is about.
I’m like in love with
Peeta now! And btw he’s in love with Katniss <3 awwe I have to spoil just
this one little part... on the first day
of Kindergarten when Katniss sang in front of the class, her voice was
apparently so beautiful that even the birds stopped to listen and that’s when
he knew he was a goner. And then this other time when she was 11, he gave her
hope. So she was like starving and she’s sitting like outside of the bakery
after being told to stop digging out of the trash by the baker’s wife.. and
Peeta comes out after being yelled at and beaten by his mom (who’s a real b*tch)
for burning bread. And he’s supposed to give the bread to their pet pigs but
instead he gives them to her (BECAUSE HE LOVES HER!) Hmmm I feel like a crazy
fan-girl... which I am. But you can’t blame me cuz this book was just so
adorable.
I highly recommend this
book if you wanna read about like romance that’s unrelated to vampires... cuz u
know, now a days, everything is about vampires. It’s like a mix of romance and
adventure. I love this book, you can get the whole trilogy from Chapters or any
other book star but I got mine from Costco cuz it’s like $15 cheaper there. Or
of course, you could get it from the library but I bet there’s a long waiting
list of people who wanna read this book.
I hope you found this
review helpful and I hope you decide to read this book J
