Twelve days of kindle #12
My final choice from this year's kindle reading is another irresistible trilogy. I took a long time getting around to 'The Hunger Games', but once I did, it was inevitable that 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' would whizz straight onto my kindle. I raced through all three books of Suzanne Collins' compelling young adult trilogy, and then I went back to the beginning and started again more slowly!
Like many young adult books, especially sci-fi and fantasy, 'The Hunger Games' deals with some weighty issues of politics and responsibility, while also keeping the reader on tenterhooks by putting an appealing set of characters through some major challenges.
It's a tribute (pardon the pun) to the sense of reality and inevitability Suzanne Collins has created in these books, that in writing about them, I kept having to remind myself to explain concepts such as tributes and The Games. Like all the best stories, once you've read them, or indeed seen the film, they take on a reality of their own. Katniss and her life will always be part of my mind now, and the world is a more interesting place because of it.
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