Dystopian Young Adult fiction wouldn’t seem like a hot commodity with the target audience mostly obsessed with the Twilight and Harry Potter series. Yet Suzanne Collins seems to have captured lightening in a bottle with her The Hunger Games Trilogy. North American has suffered an apocalyptic event that has reduced cities and populations to 12 Districts who service the rulers in the Capitol district. The series is narrated by sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister in District 12 (a mining district). The elites in the Capitol hold a yearly televised gladiatorial event called “The Hunger Games.” A girl and a boy from each of the 12 districts are chosen at random to compete in the Games. Only one contestant will survive. I was surprised at the level of violence in these books. But Suzanne Collins knows how to tell a very compelling story. Once you start these books, you’ll find them hard to put down. The movie version of The Hunger Games will be released in March 2012. Check out the trailer to the movie below.
We liked the books a lot too. With Jennifer Lawrence starring as Katniss I’m hoping the movie will be worth seeing.
Donald Sutherland is playing evil President Snow and Woody Harrelson is Haymitch, Jeff. THE HUNGER GAMES should be one of the big movie hits of 2012.
Though I have yet to read them I am happy to see these books make a big splash in and outside of the YA community. I don’t have any desire to read the Harry Potter books and the sexy vampire stuff has never been appealing to me. Of course I’m not the target audience for that either, ha! The movie certainly looks promising.
I found THE HUNGER GAMES a real page-turner, Carl. I could not put it down once I started reading it. I think THE HUNGER GAME movie will be a big hit.
MTV effects turn me off. I’ll pass.
no, thanks.
I’ve heard the same thing from multiple readers, and from many who would not consider themselves fans of SFF of any kind. I hope the film is good.
The producers of THE HUNGER GAMES movie are going to have to tone down the violence of the book if they want a PG-13 rating, Carl.