The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games#1) by Suzanne Collins
✯✯✯✯✯ (5 Stars)
TheHunger Games is one of those timeless books that will stay with you forever. Insome ways, it is reminiscent of The Lottery combined with a modern-dayreality show similar to Survivor. It's an talented author who candescribe starvation in such a way the reader feels like they have endured famine...whocan build life-threatening events with such reality the reader's heart poundswhile hormones of anxiety course through their veins...who can make the readerfall into heartwarming love at the same moment the book's characters do...whocan make you mourn - with real tears -when great characters die.  SuzanneCollins is just such author.  Amazing.  Inspiring. One of the greatest. 

Katniss' selflessness and willingness to give her life for others along with hermorals/ethics make her the perfect heroine. Katniss' tales describing her friendship with Gale and their likenessesmeans there is no way to ignore the strength of their bond and makes you wonderif she unknowingly loves him.  Peeta's tendershow of unrequited love makes the reader's heart squeeze, and they cheer forhim as emphatically as they pull for Katniss to be the winner of the HungerGames.

The Hunger Games and the Capital and the Districts.  The world which was created within the coversof this book is very real, making this unbelievable story suddenly plausibleand horrific.   

I would highly recommend this book for people of all ages.  In fact, I'm dying to tackle CatchingFire (The Hunger Games, #2), which will be one of my nextbooks.  Stayed tuned for that review.