The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Review by D Michelle
The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Usual Price: £7.99 - Trilogy box-set £24.99 - bargain from The Works: £7.99
Though the story is in 1st person perspective - which I dislike - it is written so well that I forget about that for large chunks of the tale.
I was drawn in with an expertise that is so refreshing and new that I finished the book less than 24 hours after I bought it.
While I have read stories that remind me of this book, it's certainly a very original one. Stephen King's 'The Running Man' and 'The Long Walk' have themes very similar to this but this book is taken from the perspective of a contestant in a lethal 'game' and to be unmoved by the plight of the contestants and their families left at home would be impossible.
I did guess at a few of the twists in the story but that certainly didn't detract from it. If anything, it made it more tense and thrilling to see how the talented Suzanne Collins set out her story and entwined the reader into it, even when I was pretty sure of some of the outcomes, they were never exactly as I had imagined. It seemed like Suzanne Collins predicted everything that I could have guessed at and went with it but went yet further and took more time to draw the agony of anticipation out to unbearable and exquisite satisfaction.
I bought The Hunger Games in a trilogy set and I can see that any other reading material will be set aside until the remaining two books have been consumed like the first one.Published
01/12/2011
Publisher
Scholastic
ISBN
9781407132082
The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Usual Price: £7.99 - Trilogy box-set £24.99 - bargain from The Works: £7.99
Though the story is in 1st person perspective - which I dislike - it is written so well that I forget about that for large chunks of the tale.
I was drawn in with an expertise that is so refreshing and new that I finished the book less than 24 hours after I bought it.
While I have read stories that remind me of this book, it's certainly a very original one. Stephen King's 'The Running Man' and 'The Long Walk' have themes very similar to this but this book is taken from the perspective of a contestant in a lethal 'game' and to be unmoved by the plight of the contestants and their families left at home would be impossible.
I did guess at a few of the twists in the story but that certainly didn't detract from it. If anything, it made it more tense and thrilling to see how the talented Suzanne Collins set out her story and entwined the reader into it, even when I was pretty sure of some of the outcomes, they were never exactly as I had imagined. It seemed like Suzanne Collins predicted everything that I could have guessed at and went with it but went yet further and took more time to draw the agony of anticipation out to unbearable and exquisite satisfaction.
I bought The Hunger Games in a trilogy set and I can see that any other reading material will be set aside until the remaining two books have been consumed like the first one.Published
01/12/2011
Publisher
Scholastic
ISBN
9781407132082