The Hunger Games

My January has mostly been spent rereading The Millennium Trilogy (aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc.) , but I told myself I would read the Hunger Games series when I was finished with those. Three people on the blog have read them. I'm sure 75% of middle schoolers have read them. And I know plenty of people my age comparing them to the HP series and the Millennium Trilogy. So ya know, I wanted to read them! I like reading!

They are what everyone else said they were. Page turning middle school level books. I started The Hunger Games, and I finished it four hours later. When I am enjoying a book, I have trouble putting it down. But this one really is a page turner because you want to know who's gonna die.

Spoiler Alerts!

Firstly, I didn't think the ending was completely predictable. Until the game changing announcement in the middle, I honestly thought the that either Peeta, Rue, or Katniss would live. I could see a scenario in which any of those happened. To tell you the truth though, I'm happy that both Peeta and Katniss lived. I think it would have been a shame to kill them both off. I understand it was predictable in that matter, but I don't generally like seeing characters I enjoy being killed off. The writing was simplistic, but hey, that's what made it such a simple quick read.

I really did enjoy it. I look forward to seeing the movie. I'm particularly excited to how much like flames they can make Peeta and Katniss look in the entrance ceremonies. But a lot of Cinna's charm is long gone knowing that he was cast as Lenny Kravitz.

Oh well! Good book! On to the second! Dreading the third!