The Hunger Games have been talked about for so long and the movies coming out soon so I figured I needed to keep up with the trend. And it was definately a page turner but at the very end I felt it lacked a reaction on my part. After such a dramatic book, where you had to step into their world to understand the action and the means for doing it, I came away empty handed. Maybe the ending was too predictable, but throughout the book I never thought ahead, I stayed in the moment. Whatever pizazz the Hunger Games lacked in an ending though it made up for it in the rest of the book. Slightly chick flicky, but all in all a good idea.
Much YA fiction is written as series now--sells more books, I think--so a story that could rock as a standalone, is now 3 books long. I think that is part of the problem with HG. Also, look what else you have been reading this year. HG can't stand up to the competition!
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