Review: Mockingjay

BY Shriya Garg IN C, Fantasy, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy 10 COMMENTS death

by Suzanne Collins. #3 in The Hunger Games Trilogy Grade C.

If you’ve read my review of The Hunger Games, it wouldn’t come as a surprise that I’d been counting the release date of this book on my fingers, crazily eager to read it. Did it live up to my expectations? Read on.

Let us start with the back blurb:

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either.

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Review: The Hunger Games

BY Shriya Garg IN A, Fantasy, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy 4 COMMENTS

By Suzanne Collins. #1 in The Hunger Games Trilogy. Grade: A

In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch.
When 16-year-old Katniss’s young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district’s female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.

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Review: Catching Fire

BY Shriya Garg IN A, Fantasy, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy 2 COMMENTS

By Suzanne Collins. #2 in The Hunger Games Trilogy. Grade: A

If you don’t know already, even though you should know, the premise of this series is a that in the future, post-apocalyptic world of the super-badass Katniss Everdeen, one rich city controls twelve poor-to-starving cities that produce all of the goods for the rich city. In order to keep the poor cities in fear, the rich city requires each of the poor cities to send one teenage boy and one teenage girl as tributes to play the Hunger Games. In the Hunger Games the kids have to kill each other until there is one survivor, who gets to party for the rest of his/her life but never really feels like partying because everything’s so fucked up.… Continue Reading?