“The Hunger Games” is a story about a teen girl named Katniss Everdeen and the world she lives in. Katniss lives in a post-apocalyptic America, where it’s broken up into districts. At one point there were 13 districts, but they rebelled against the Capitol and were demolished. Now there are only 12. That goes to show how power hungry the Capitol is. People in the Capitol hate anything new, anything different, and anything true. That’s quite ironic, because that’s how some view America and even the world today, leaving readers wondering: how far are we from a world like this? That’s what I love about dystopian fiction books.

Katniss lives in District 12. She is very poor and must illegally hunt with her friend Gale to survive. But one day every year, everyone in District 12 goes to the center of town and they pull names of teens to be in the Hunger Games. Katniss’s sister’s name gets pulled and in fear of her endangerment, she volunteers to take her spot. She is then trained with a boy from her district, Peeta,which is funny because he once fed her and her family bread at his own expense. So throughout this whole book, she feels like she must give it back.

That leads to another theme within this book because she feels in debt to anyone who helps her, so she does her best to pay them back. Once the Hunger Games start, she must be smart and calculative about everything. Can she trust others? Can she trust her training and trainers? Can she trust herself? Will she survive the Hunger Games and be the second girl ever from her district to win? If so, how will she do it? That’s all to figure out in the book.

So all in all, I think many people should read this book and the rest of the series, which is being added to more and more with new books and films, including a new movie coming in November. 

I would rate this book a 4/5, and I’m most excited to read the rest of the books.