Catching Fire #2
Mockingjay #3
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: Dystopian, Science Fiction
Rating: 5/10
Written by the best selling author of The Underland Chronicles. The Hunger Games is an abysmal read at best.
It takes place in a dystopian world where a tyrannical regime has taken over post-war America. The land has been divided into 12 districts, each with a different social class.
Every district is required by law to provide one male and one female every year to act as tributes, in a competition knows as The Hunger Games.
These "Tributes" would then duke it out, Gladiator style for the pleasure of the masses.
Just like the Colosseum in Rome, The contestants would fight to the death in arenas made especially for this purpose.
Our primary protagonist Katniss Everdeen of district 12, Along with Peeta Mellark are one of the few unlucky people chosen to participate in the 74th Hunger Games. Peeta and Katniss are forced to work together to survive in the arena and this cultivates into something else really.
For Katniss this book starts with her fighting in an arena and ends with her leading a revolution.
These Books could have been the stepping stone to something great but as is the case with most book series, The story starts to rapidly decay. For me the first book was like a breeze of fresh air, The second book was like rain, A little annoying but nevertheless pleasant, And the third book was like.....well to put it in simpler terms, It was shit. But what really bugs me about this series is that it fails to explain how the world got so messed up in the first place. What little attention it had in the second book was completely lost in the third, not only that but the movie adaptations of this series are an eyesore. I fail to understand why people still like this series as it doesnt have any intersting characters, it has an extremely boring pace and in the end all it crumbles down to is whether Katniss will choose Gale as her boy toy or Peeta, Yes, My friends just like Twilight.
For those people who are fans of dystopian fiction, this realy is one of the only series you might hear about so be smart and read something else.
What little attention it did catch was that the premise of this series was very interesting but sadly it was wasted on a pointless love story.
REVIEWED BY:
Yasir Zafar
First of His Name
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