Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Format Read: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 374
Release Date: September 13th, 2008
Publisher: Scholastic
Formats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Book, eBook

Purchasing Info: Suzanne Collins Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes&Noble

Book Blurb:

“In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.”

My Thoughts:

The Hunger Games gives us a look in a possible future of the society and world we live in today. We follow Katniss about a century after environmental catastrophes have changed the face of North America and the former United States is now Panem, a nation divided into 12 districts and a Capitol.

Katniss lives in district 12 and has been taking care of her mother and little sister since her …