The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, is a story based in North America and the future. The story is told by the protagonist Katniss Everdeen, who is a 16-year-old girls living in the 12th District, who volunteers at a "reaping" in place of her younger sister Primrose Everdeen. As one female and one male are randomly selected from between the ages of 12 and 18, a young boy the same age as Katniss called Peeta Mellark is chosen, who evidently has a crush on Katniss from several years before. They are then taken on a journey to the wealthiest place in Northern America (in the story known as Panem), called the Capitol. They are then monitored on their strength, agility, mental skills and various other things. They are then ranked to see whom is the best; the people with higher test scores are the end of the final test are then sponsored more money to win the Hunger Games. When the games begin, Katniss ventures off by herself, clambering through the wilderness in hopes to find water and shelter. A few days later, she stumbles across a young girl names Rue, who becomes an ally of Katniss', but then shortly dies, mentally scaring Katniss. Katniss then seeks revenge immediately after Rue dies, and then creates a memorial before Rue's body is taken away. Katniss then seeks off by herself in hopes to kill the other competitors, but stumbles across Peeta who had been hiding in the corners of a rock, painting his face in order to blend in so nobody would find him. Katniss, luckily, manages to heal his wounds and find fresh food for them to eat and for Peeta to heal on. After Peeta'd wounds have finally healed, he and Katniss venture into the forests to take out the remaining few who are still in the arena. When it is only Katniss and Peeta left, they take on a choice, either both die or one of them dies. They use the poisened berries Peeta picked up whilst searching for food, and begin to take them, until it is decides that they will both win the games together. They are then taken home and praised for both surviving the games, but both bring on a rebellion. 

"The Hunger Games" is a simple book, which uses its simplicity as its way of making the story perfect. 

The story is known world wide is one of the most talked about novels of the day. 

In my opinion, this book shows that girls an survive by themselves without a man, even if that's what every Disney story has to you; it's just simply not true. This book gives you the impression that it's okay to rebel and bend the rules, but also teaches you that bending the rules comes with a price, and that price needs to be paid when it comes to Katniss and Peeta winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games. 

This book is one of my favourites, and if you have never read it I would highly recommend it because the story is just superb. 

If you have any recommendations don't be hesitant to tell me, I shall read it and give you my opinion. 

Enjoy :)