Synopsis:
Sixteen-year-old Katniss is smart, athletic, and fast. She can take down a rabbit with a bow and arrow, hitting it straight through the eye. Will these skills be enough to survive the Hunger Games? Suzanne Collins, the author of the middle-grade fantasy series The Underland Chronicles begins anew, exploring a future landscape that will be familiar to devotees of science fiction's dystopic strain. In a nation called Panem, which occupies the landmass that is the present United States, a parasitical fascist Capitol dominates 12 conquered districts. There was a thirteenth district but it was obliterated during a rebellion. The totalitarian government keeps the subjected populations in line by threatened devastation, starvation, and brutality.
Synopsis:Katniss Everdeen continues to struggle to protect herself and her family from the Capitol in this second novel from the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.
A friend of mine suggested I read these books, and honestly I was a little wary about reading the first book, The Hunger Games doesn't sound like a digestible read. But I started reading on Monday night, it wasn't too bad at first. Yesterday, I could barely put it down, and today I finished the first book and on to the next...after I clean. :-D
I have to admit that this book is as frustrating as it is captivating because of how the character thinks and it's on-the-edge-of-your-seat thrill. Very good read. However this is a triligy and the last book Mockingjay is not out yet but will be by the end of the year.
2 comments:
Katniss? Really? Where do people get these names?
I hate starting a trilogy if I have to wait for the third installment. Such torture waiting to find out what happens!
-paryi
Katniss is another Indian name of a plant, the root of which they were likewise accustomed to eat,... It grows in low, muddy, and very wet ground. The root is oblong, commonly an inch and a half long, and one inch and a quarter broad in the middle; but some of the roots have been as big as a man's fists. The Indians either boiled this root or roasted it in hot ashes.
And because I'm weird I rather like the name.
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