These three books — The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay -– are spectacular! The trilogy takes place after the destruction of North America by a global war. In the ruins, the nation of Panem emerged with 12 surrounding districts controlled by the Capitol. As punishment for a rebellion against the Capitol during the Dark Days, which resulted in the destruction District 13, each year the remaining districts will select one boy and one
girl, aged 12 to 18 as tributes in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to death in live television. Suzanne Collins is a very impressive writer.
Her plot is mind-blowing and will fascinate you from page one of the first book until the final page of the last book.
What I like best in this trilogy, aside from the spell-bounding storyline of survival, are the social and political issues tackled like the effects of ...