'The Hunger Games' Book Review

As I am almost positive all of you know by now, if not by your irritating friends who will not stop talking about it, or that the commercials have been circulating, OR that you have seen the movie, that the novel The Hunger Games, has been transformed into a film. It is directed by Gary Ross, and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, the main character, Katniss Everdeen, is portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence. Peeta Mellark, Katniss's love interest, is played by Josh Hutcherson, and Gale Hawthorne, Katniss's bestfriend, is represented as Liam Hemsworth. 

The movie was changed a bit from then novel, but for the most part they stood true to the original book. My favorite character was Katniss. She was a determined heroine, desperate to save her little sister from the cruelty of the Capitol. The author, Suzanne Collins, did a stellar job at making us feel how Katniss was feeling. As the main character and first-person narrator of the entire series, it was great to see how she felt about what all the outrageous characters did to her. Gale was another one of my favorite characters.  He was always so kind to Katniss, being the supportive best friend. My heart broke when he came to see Katniss before she got shipped off to the Games. Peeta was never my favorite character, but he always played a big part in conducting the plot line of the novel. 

The setting as a key part of the novel. With the tributes and the Hunger Games, and the broken North America residence of Panem, everything seemed to be perfectly constructed throughout the entire novel. I loved the different districts, I thought that each one of them added so much more volume to the story than it would have had then if the author had just made the country one large unit. My favorite district was District 12, but not because Katniss was a resident. Because they were the poorest, the underdogs, and everyone loves an underdog. Also, I'm a bit of a firebug, so I loved that they were coal miners. Aside from adoring the districts, I also enjoyed how Suzanne made the Capitol so vicious  But they weren't openly cruel. They had that evil undertone to them all, they way they dressed should have been a tip-off that they were all completely insane. 

This was a much better book than movie, so even if you have seen the movie, i would still advise you to read the novel. The film hardly compared to the epic proportions of the novel. It was a bit gory, but I personally thought that made it all the more descriptive, therefore, better. Everyone really should read these books, the entire series. Suzanne Collins has managed something truly amazing in this series, most importantly this book.