I absolutely loved this book!!!! It was amazing!!! I only started reading it because my mom got it from work(she works at Scholastic). This book is completely different from books I usually read. It was really violent. I hate reading and watching this about blood and wounds and this book talked about those. It also had very strange names. The main character's name is Katniss Everdeen and she lives in a generally poor place called District 12 with her mom and sister. Every year there is an event called the Hunger Games. Two people, boy and girl, from all 12 districts in Panem, get trained a little and then put it an arena to fight to the death and the last one standing wins. If I knew this was true I don't think I would have read this book, but I did and finished the majority of it in a day because everything after when the games start is a climax to me and I had to keep reading! The people who will kill each other are called tributes. They are treated very, very well before they go in the arena. I think that the reason I liked this book so much was because of the author's style of writing. She makes most of it seem like a cliffhanger. The plot of this book is sooooo messed up (all of the tributes are between the ages of 12 and 18) and if I really knew what it was I don't think I would've read it. I think the genre of this book is science fiction because they have all of this really fancy medicine and they turned all of the dead tributes into dogs at then end of the book. After the games is over, Katniss and her partner, Peeta, (they kind of rebelled the Games and almost both died, so they let them both live) had a lot of injuries, but once they had a certain medicine they were perfect once again. I loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel!!!
