The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Review by Josh80/100Read September 5, 2012
If you like romance novels but wish they had more violence directed towards children, this might be the book for you. It's a beautiful story about love, with a great deal of brutal violence.
The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and…
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