The Hunger Games Trilogy (Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay)
2010
- romance
- drama
- young adult fiction
- television game shows
- dystopian
- girls
- fiction
- science fiction
- interpersonal relations
- dystopias
The story
The stunning Hunger Games trilogy is complete! The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in e-book. Stunning, gripping, and powerful.
What it’s like
Lean, present-tense first-person prose that moves quickly and stays close to a single anxious, watchful mind, with short declarative sentences that snap like a shutter when the danger spikes and looser, lingering passages when the narrator is alone in the woods or noticing small domestic things. The sensory world is one of grey coal-mining towns, thin soup and cracked earth, then sudden lushness in a manicured Capitol of pastel bubblegum colours, glossy spectacle and loud, unnatural light. Sound carries the dread: rustling undergrowth, distant cannon booms, the hush before a fight. The vibe is bleak but driven, a sharpened unease with flickers of tenderness, best suited to a long read with the lights on or a long-haul flight when you want to be pulled along. Intensity is significant: frequent violence, including children killing children, with death and wounds described plainly and sometimes graphically, though the sexual content stays minimal and the romance is restrained. For readers who want propulsive dystopian adventure with a strong, stubborn heroine and a lot of moral weight, and who can handle brutal, emotionally heavy scenes.
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