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The Hunger Games

 

I truly loved this book SO much! I would give it 11/10 stars. Bravery and hope, love and death enthralled in a captivating book! THIS IS A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12 districts, 1 city

A city called the Capitol for the wealth, full of entertainment and power and the districts work day in, day out for the Capitol like slaves when some can’t even put food in on the table. Many years ago, when the rebels went to war with the capitol in seek for a better life, the capitol destroyed district 13 as threat of power to any other rebels wanting to avenge the capitol. To silence the rebels. For 16 year-old Katniss Everdeen, she hasn’t known any other life than scavenging the woods to put food on the table for her younger sister and mum. Hunting is an illegal trade, but her father died in the coal mines, her mother turned against the whole world in a shield of grief. To revenge the districts from their previous rebellious acts, the capitol hosts a games every year where teenagers between the ages of 12-18, one girl, one boy from each district compete in an arena for life and death. This years reaping promises emotional and courageous acts in the face of love for family. When Kantniss’s sister, Prim, is drawn from the massive pool of names, nothing is the same. In an cry of panic, Katniss immediately volunteers to take her place with the fresh knowledge that once she enters that arena, she will not be returning. Thrown into an arena where no one is trustworthy and nowhere is safe, she must try to battle out to end. But through all the pools of blood, the dead bodies and the life-threatening mutts made by the capitol to kill the tributes, love blooms like daffodils and things might not be as easy as Katniss thought when she meets the sweet, charming boy she can’t shake away from. However, in the end only one can stand alive in the arena. Would she choose love, the boy who saved her life in the field of daffodils, or her own life? This decision could ultimately spark a rebellion against the capitol and gift the rebels with hope. Well, read on to find out and as for Katniss, “May the odds be ever in your favour.”

2 comments

inky State Library Victoria

So you will definitely be reading the prequel when it comes out next year, right?

25th Jun, 19
coconut

OF COURSE! I love the hunger games so much and I'm so excited that they are bringing out a prequel!

25th Jun, 19