The Hunger Games... Not So Good

Person reading this, if you have read "The Hunger Games", by looking at the title, you can guess that I do not think like you. There has been a lot of hype about this book, and a lot of good things said about it. But I don't think it is really that good.

First of all, it is a survival book. I cannot stand survival books. I think they are really bad (unless they are by Gary Paulsen). There is no dialogue. And there is always low action. When I read a survival book, all I remember is the fact that making clothes was the main focus.

This book has dialogue. And no clothes making. However, it gets very redundant and may I say boring at times. But it is okay.

There is definitley a lot of action. All the murder, fights, and running away sometimes leave me at the edge of my seat, couch, or bed. But other times, there is full chapters about hiding in a cave during the rain.

I love the characters in this book. They are well developed and have personalities only a great author can come up with. And if they are not developed, it is on purpouse. Peeta has many mysteries he is kepping secret.

I have not finished this book, but I basically know how it is going to end. Katniss will win. She has to. That girl should be dead already, I mean, seriously, she is alive because of luck and other people mostly. She has had to much luck to die now. Besides, I don't think people would like the book as much if she died. So I can pretty much guess she will win. So will Peeta. He has roughed it out for to long, too hard to die now. He hid in the mud for days without food. And he didn't move at all. How can you kill him? You can't. This book is predictable. That is not good.

I read on the dust jacket that the idea for this book came from the author watching reality coverage of the war in Iraq. This tells me that maybe, we think that watching Katniss die on T.V. for real would be awful, but it barely fases us to watch these people die in Iraq. What do you think about that?

Out of five stars, this book gets three. It really is good, just not great.