Hunger Games is a cruel reality TV show, in which, 24 teens, chosen by lottery, fight each other to the death. The only rule: you can’t eat the dead, and the winner goes on to live a life of luxury and ease. This all takes place in the former North America, now Panem, divided into twelve districts run by a dictatorship in a city called the Capitol.

There is the typical love triangle, and a strong heroine provides the constant suspense that keeps the reader from putting the book down. An unsettling book with parallels that can be made to today’s society and the first in a trilogy. - Linda Kautzi

YA SCI FI Collins Suzanne