The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The young adult (YA) Sci-Fi genre is not my normal choice of fiction but I got this novel for Christmas so it seemed ungrateful not to read it. Here’s what it’s about and what I thought about it.
The novel is set in the not too distant future in Panem which used to be North America. The mining District 12 used to be Appalachia. Society as we know and love it (!) has collapsed and all the power is now centred on a shiny hi-tech city called simply the Capitol.
Since the quelling of a peoples’ revolt , the twelve defeated districts have been ruled by The Treaty of Treason. Travel between the districts is forbidden except for officially sanctioned duties. As a further reminder of who’s in charge, the annual Hunger Games are held – a battle to the death engineered and manipulated by the Capitol’s gamemakers for the entertainment of the masses. The games’ rules are explained in the first chapter : Continue reading
