[My thanks to a Rabid Reader follower for submitting this guest blog.]
The Hunger Games is a series I never really considered reading until I was on vacation with a desire to read some fiction and no wi-fi access to browse options on my Kindle. My wife started reading the series when I got my Kindle for Christmas this past year and it is the only piece of fiction in my growing Kindle library. My impression was that The Hunger Games was a series geared towards a female audience and that it wouldn't hold my attention for very long, mainly due to it's strong underlying love story. I misjudged.
The Hunger Games is written with the main character, Katniss Everdeen, narrating and takes place in a future time where the United States and other portions of the Americas are replaced by Panem. A country with a single city ruling of 12 oppressed districts, which are each required to offer up a male and female annually to literally fight for their lives. The concept of The Hunger Games is quickly addressed in the book, which is what intrigued me and kept me reading. Though there is a small level of predictability in the storyline, I feel it is filled with enough mystery and cliffhangers to keep almost anyone turning the pages. On a more critical note, I found myself not fully buying into the fact that Katniss (an oppressed teenager raised to be a coal miner) was really telling the story, because of some of the language used. Nonetheless, I was entertained and intrigued enough to continue reading the series.
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