It's been a busy start to the year, with a holiday to Egypt, Valentines day (peak period at work) going to the Brit awards (sorry to mention it again) so finally with a free Sunday just over a week ago I was able to pick up a new book to read. Now knowing a film has been made about this set of book, and I'd rather read the book before seeing the film, "The Hunger Games" had to be the book to read. All I can say it doesn't disappoint. If I didn't have to go to work I'm sure I wouldn't of put this book down. Within three days I had finished the book and was itching for more, so the second book in the trilogy, "Catching Fire", was out in a flash and in my hand reading every free moment I had. Again within a few days, (a little longer than the first book because I needed to go to work and do some housework, plus visit friends) I had finished the book. The story holds you tight wanting to know how the main character survive, copes with everything that gets thrown in her face. Yesterday, because I couldn't take it anymore I started the last book in the Trilogy "Mockingjay". I'm already at chapter 15, page 238. Again I've only put in down to get some jobs done today. For anyone who hasn't heard about these books, I'm just going to sum up the first book from my point of view, I don't want to give to much away or about what happens in the next two books, mainly because I hate it when someone gives away the ending of a book or film, so I don't want to do it to anyone else either.
The books in order, left to right, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay
The blurb on The Hunger Games reads:
In a dark vision of the near future,
twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear
in a live TV show called the Hunger Games.
There is only one rule: kill or be killed
When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps
forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees
it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death
before. for her, survival is second nature.
Even this blurb draws you into the book, a good summary.
The book is broken into three parts, this helps you understand the story more and what the character is going through. The main character is Katniss Everdeen, the story is told from her point of view. Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister in a poor area of district 12. With no father in her life after he died she takes on the role of the head of the house hold at a young age making her grow up a lot quicker than most do. Her world is a far cry from what we know and the author helps describe Katniss's world, dropping you into the future. The country every year holds an event called the hunger games where two contestants from each of the twelve districts, one male and one female, compete in a contest where only one can survive. These games have been invented to show the power the leaders, the Capitol, have over the people. They use them as entertainment for everyone to watch them die. When the two contestants are picked from district 12, Katniss sister Prim is selected at random. Katniss steps up to take her place knowing that she is heading to her death. Katniss is then thrown into a world she hates and despises, the people who are putting her into danger, who want her to fight for entertainment. Her fate is in her own hands and her competitors, all she knows is that she wants to get home to see and stay with her family, but that's what everyone else in the arena wants too! Now how hard is she willing to fight?
Once you start to read these books I'm sure you will be griped. Go on and take a chance get lost in another world.
Well done to the author Suzanne Collins on a beautiful set of book. I'm now looking forward to seeing the film this month. Also I'm pleased that the author has had a hand in the film being able to co-write the screen play for the film. This, I hope, will make the films close to the books unlike so many book to films before them. I understand that to turn a whole book into a film could make a film extra long but I believe it can lose some of the magic of the book. Only watching the film will clear this up, but every time I see a Trailer for the film I get more and more excited!!
Now I must finish the last book, I hope you are able to enjoy the books and also the film.
Love Lolly
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