16-year old Katniss Everdeen runs her family. She has to go hunting illegally in the woods and trade her game in the black market for other amenities. Yet still it is difficult for her family to make ends meet. Ever since her father's death, her mother has retreated into her mind in shock, and her younger sister Prim is not of much help either. Katniss wonders when this time of agony shall end.
Katniss lives in Panem, a country which is located in an area once called North America. It is ruled by a strong city called the Capitol, and is built of twelve surrounding districts. Katniss lives in the twelfth district, the poorest, most uneducated, menial and starved district of Panem.
Katniss can't imagine how her family will survive without her. But she will have to imagine it when she volunteers to take the place of he sister to participate in the Hunger Games, an entertaining punishment(for the Capitol) for something terrible that happened in Panem's past. Each district must send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in a fight to the death in an unknown arena. The winner is the only one who survives, and gets fame and fortune. The losers get death. Will Katniss survive the Hunger Games to return and take care of her family again, or will she succumb to the extreme pressure and to the people out to murder her?
I like this book because not only does it catch the drama and adrenaline related to death, it also tells us that no matter what the type of government, if the people don't like it, they can speak up, whether they have the right to or not. This voice is the one that tips the scales in the history of a country. Suzanne Collins has managed to produce another gripping, award winning, bestselling book series after the Underland Chronicles. The Hunger Games will delight readers all over the world!
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