the book

last week i mentioned a book i couldn't put down that my friend jenn recommended. it's called the hunger games by suzanne collins and it was fantastic. i don't want to ruin the story for you so i'm not going to give it away here, i'll just say it's a modern-day lord of the flies with the sweetest love story mixed in. i can't get it out of my mind. like jenn said, the names threw me off a little and it took me a while to figure out if the main character was a boy or a girl (girl) and if the person named gale was a boy or a girl (boy), but once the genders were all worked out, i dug right in. i read it in less than a day because i quite literally couldn't put it down. the entire book is tense. you know how the ends of scary books are so scary you might pull a muscle, scream, and cry out of fear all at the same time? that's how this book is the entire way through. there is no letting up. luckily there is a sequel coming out in september so i don't have to wait too long to get back into katniss's life.

if you don't like science fiction or violence, this is not the book for you. just fyi.