About this book Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
This is the first book in a dystopian trilogy. Katniss who comes from District 12, the coal mining district, has been been forced to fend for her family by learning to hunt in the forbidden forests after her father is tragically killed in the coal mines. When the annual Hunger Games come around and her little sister Prim, is chosen, Katniss automatically volunteers to take her place in order to save her sister's life. Petra, the baker's son, was the other chosen one. In a live press conference at the Capitol to introduce the Hunger Games tributes to Panem, Petra confesses is unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss is taken aback but assumes that it is part of the plan to garner sympathy and therefore sponsorship to get help during the games.
Katniss is a fierce competitor. Katniss' survival skills prove to be a tremendous asset for her.
The tributes are been thrown for a loop when it is announced that 2 tributes from the same District can be victors. So there is a scramble to everyone to find their fellow tribute. Katniss needs to find and team up with Petra. In the meanwhile she finds an ally in Rue, a little wisp of a girl from the agriculture district.
One by one, the tributes go down, including Rue. Katniss does eventually find Petra but he is in horrible shape. They play up their "love" for the viewers and are rewarded with sponsors' gifts and medicine for Petra.
At the end, with the final on command confrontation between the remaining tributes, Katniss and Petra are the last ones standing. They are the winners, or so they think. The rules are changed again and there is to be only one winner. Katniss in a fit of defiance declares that she and Petra will go down together by ingesting the poisonous berries she still had. The Capitol had no choice but to declare the lovebirds winners because there cannot be no winners.
The Hunger Games is definitely a must read! It is full of adventure and twists and turns that have you on the edge of your seat.
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