This book starts out with some of the main character's normal life, but then her younger sister gets picked as a tribute foooorrrr... the hunger games. Before I go on, let tell you about them. The hunger games are basically the way the central city (called the Capitol) of a nation called Panem reminds the twelve remaining districts (there used to be a thirteenth district, but that got destroyed during a war of the districts rebelling against the Capitol) that they are still under its power after the rebellion ended by ordering the districts to pick male and female tributes (people) to kill the other tributes from the other districts as well as the other tribute from the same district, and the last one alive wins (feeling sick? I am, blaugh!). Now she is in the arena for hunger games and the some of the other tributes are already dead.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend this book for the faint at heart and the younger readers.
Okay, so compare the brutality in this book with the brutality in Ender's Game. I find them pretty similar, but for some reason, the brutality in this book was harder to take even though the characters are much older than in Ender's story. I mean...Ender is SIX YEARS OLD!
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