The Hunger Games - The first of the series
"Sparks fly.
The flames spread.
The Capitol wants revenge.
Against all odds Katniss has won The Hunger Games. It's a miracle that she and her fellow District 12, Peeta Mellark, still alive. Katniss should feel relieved, even happy, since, after all, has returned with his family and his lifelong friend, Gale. However, nothing is as she would like. Gale and Peeta keep the distances he has turned his back completely. Also it is rumored that there is a rebellion against the Capitol, a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped to burn to."
Summary
In The Hunger Games, teenagers Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark emerged as victors of the 74th Hunger Games—a compulsory, nationally broadcast, gladiator-style fight to the death against 22 other teens. However, the fact that both of them emerged as victors is an unprecedented embarrassment to the Capitol, the oppressive regime that rules the nation of Panem and stages the annual Hunger Games. Katniss outsmarted the Capitol by feigning love for Peeta, and—when only the two of them were left alive in the arena—threatening to eat a handful of poisonous berries simultaneously with Peeta, such that both of them would die (think Romeo and Juliet). Unable to stomach no Hunger Games victor, the Capital momentarily buckled and allowed both to win.
Picking up the story in Catching Fire, Katniss’s victory has changed her life. She now lives in a mansion in the “Victor’s Village” of District 12, and has more money than she will ever need: her days of poverty and hunger are over. However, despite her new wealth, all is not well. As a victor, Katniss must now be involved with the violent Hunger Games (which she would rather forget) indefinitely. Most immediately, she must participate in a Victory Tour, visiting the Districts and families of the other Hunger Games contestants—“tributes”—who were killed in the arena, some of them at her hand. Then, she, Peeta, and Haymitch Abernathy—the alcoholic victor of the 50th Hunger Games, who mentored Katniss and Peeta during their time in the arena—will be required to act as mentors to the District 12 tributes at the 75th Hunger Games. That round of the Games has been deemed a “Quarter Quell,” i.e., an especially brutal version of the Games to commemorate its 75th anniversary.
In addition to the distasteful requirement that Katniss continue to be involved in the Hunger Games, she, her family, and her friends are in personal danger. Apparently Katniss’s rebellious act with the berries has stirred the possibility of insurrection in the Districts: if a 16-year-old girl can defy the Capitol and survive, why not entire Districts? President Snow—the cruel dictator of Panem—has personally threatened Katniss that unless she can pacify the Districts on the Victory Tour, she and those close to her will be in danger. The only way for her to obey this order is to continue feigning love for Peeta on the Victory Tour, and thereby to convince the restless Districts that the berries represented desperate love for Peeta and not rebellion. This project is, of course, excruciating since it is sure to further alienate her long-time hunting partner, friend, and would-be suitor Gale Hawthorne.
Genre
Teen fiction.
Review
Mockingjay - The last of the series
"Suzanne Collins marvel again a novel from the moment in which lodge in our eyes on the first page, we will not drop. And this story is shocking, full of adventure and a fast pace, will delight all those who eagerly devoured the first book. No sir, no.Not disappointed at all!
Our heroine, Katniss Everdeen is the winner of the seventieth quart Hunger Games, she and her partner Peeta. They live as calm as they can in the Village of the Conquerors now that I have nothing to fear. To be devoted to the Victory Tour, a ride that all victors do for the various districts of Panem. What I do not know is that they have been able to spark a rebellion against the Capitol, a spark that ignites a fire that is already impossible to contain.
The author returns with his unique style to get under the skin of a country suffering the incessant taunts of the Capitol, a country that saw a glimmer of hope in the last act of Peeta and Katniss in the Hunger Games. They're tired of seeing loved ones die every year, tired of being abused and seem willing to fight. ¿Rebellion? Survey ¿? What will happen?
The beautiful, flawless looking pen will keep us more and more desire to know, of course. We show the harder side and also the most tender of the characters, the Districts. And leave us with honey on the lips with a claw end and surely none expected. That's one of the most amazing things: things will happen no one could imagine, which is good, is not a predictable book.
Good pace, lots of intrigue, fast-paced action ... In flames is the perfect choice for those who love the genre of science fiction."
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