Hunger Games Trilogy

   

By Suzanne Collins

Oh, Hunger Games, how you won me over!  I'm in a book club.  This should come as no surprise to anyone.  We're all, for the most part, teachers or librarians.  None of us had read Hunger Games, but we were all intrigued.  At first, I was uninterested because I knew it was set in what was formerly the United States and what was left after we ruined the planet.  I read the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld.  It had a similar setting, and I didn't love it.  I thought this was going to be the same.  I was wrong!

By the time I got to my book club meeting, I had 50 pages or so to go in the final book.  Yup, I read the whole series.  There were parts that were laugh out loud funny.  There were parts that were violent.  I just had to know how it ended!

**Spoiler Alert**  Now, I was definitely Team Peeta the whole time.  There was nothing wrong with Gale, but I looked at him more like her brother, not her lover.  Katniss did end up with Peeta.  But I'm not sure I'm ok with why she ended up with him.  And I know I'm not ok with her having babies after she spent her whole life being against it.

This series is intended for teens.  I'm wondering how they're going to do the movie (Ugh!  I'm so against all these books being turned into movies!).  There is a lot of violence.  How are they going to do it and have the intended audience be able to see it?  I read an interview in Entertainment Weekly with the man who is directing the movie version .  He seems committed to getting it a PG-13 rating.  We'll see...

4.5 out of 5 stars.

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