The Hunger Games Book Review

By Suzanne Collins

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Once a year all the districts stop their work in order to watch 24 children fight to the death on television. The Hunger Games is a sick and bleak story that should never be entertaining, it is dumbfounding that it has gotten such a huge audience, but then again we are living in an era where Twilight is almost considered a second Bible.

Suzanne Collins has very little talent in writing, although she puts a lot of effort into sounding as artistic and troubled as possible. Her sentences are very short and choppy, hopelessly trying to sound powerful, resulting in extremely dry context. There simply is no flavour to her words, they all taste like stale bread. Collins often gives the story To Much Information moments (we all understand that the main character is facing the wilderness and is dehydrated, but really, no one wants to know that when she urinates it is brown...). The Hunger Games is set in the future and is supposedly a Science Fiction novel, but aside from a chapter or two there really isn't much to call it futuristic, it's more wilderness and survival.

The plot of The Hunger Games as a whole is absolutely revolting, and it is meant to be, but still it is disturbing that this is giving so many people joy. As a reader you want to cheer on the main character hoping that she survives the games, but then you realize that with that it means you are hoping for the other 23 innocent children to either die by the elements or be killed. That is a pretty sick thing to be rooting for. The main character Katniss is prideful, self-conscience, and extremely unobservant. It becomes extremely aggravating at times, and it is completely strange that two perfect boys are in love with her, which is entirely irritating in itself.

The ending of this book is one of the worst imaginable, although clever from Suzanne Collins perspective because now everyone has to read her second book to know how the story ends (there was no real ending to this book, more of a chapter end than a book end). All in all The Hunger Games was a strange read and a sad realization to what brings happiness to the average reader.