The Hunger Games Trilogy - Books (obviously)

So I kept hearing hype about the The Hunger Games movie. Well I made the mistake of watching Twilight before I read the book. I chose not to make that mistake again because those movies did NOT do the books justice. I bought The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins via Kindle (which is a LOT cheaper than purchasing the individual books) and I sat down and began reading. Because I don’t have as much time to sit down and read like I used to AND this was three books, it did take me a while but I finally finished a week or so ago. There was also a point in there, during the third book, that I put it down for a few weeks because it got really boring and predictable.

Let’s start with the actual first book, The Hunger Games. This book was pretty amazing. It was thought provoking, a fresh idea spun off from many of those future ideas that the world will either end or be run by some crazy person wanting to off everyone. You see it enough that you’d think this is the same, but once you start reading, you realize it’s not quite the same time. It is kind of… terrifying to see that the ruler likes to send children in to battle and watch them slaughter each other, but let’s face it; in the world we live in, this happens and the author decided to be brave and take a chance. She made it work and it’s a pretty damn good book if I do say so myself. I also bet you didn’t know the story is based loosely off the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Catching Fire was…. Ok. It could have been better. It’s not like we didn’t see a lot of it coming. We knew the ruler was going to pull something crazy out of his ass to get back at Katniss for “defying” him in front of the entire “colony.” I call it a colony because the way they describe the districts, I feel it must be in the shape of a bee hive with each level being a district. Remember the Hive in Resident Evil? Yea, it kind of reminds me of that. I suppose we didn’t see an actual Hunger Games of all the previous winners coming, but Snow had to do something extraordinary to get the peoples’ attention. I’m not so sure we were supposed to see them being taken out and to District 13. I know I didn’t see that coming but I guess with all the talk of District 13, we should have known… I mean, there’s always a secret underground city right?

Mockingjay got boring to say the least. We knew they’re plan was to overthrow Snow. We knew the city would be booby trapped. We knew Coin wanted to be leader. Blah blah blah. I figured they’d end up back in a society like we have now. It kind of ended that way except everyone back to their districts. I still say it was built like a beehive even though it’s supposed to be the form "US". I was slightly happy to read the Epilogue and see that Katniss and Peeta stayed together and had kids knowing they wouldn’t be thrown into battle against one another.

I honestly believe that Suzanne Collins planned out all three books before she began writing. Or she had this story in her head that managed to come out so long it had to be broken up. I haven’t Googled her or anything to see what she says about the books, but if you think about all the stuff written in book 1, that occurs or happens in book 3, it’s like she was writing to lead us up to what happened in book 3. Then again, maybe after the first book, she just decided to continue it in book 3, I don't know!