Review: The Hunger Games

Holy Cow, I have been quite the little reader lately.

I finished The Hunger Games in one day. I had to admit, when my cute friend Suzanne was telling me about the plot I said, "Suz, it sounds a lot like science fiction and I don't really do science fiction." She replied with "Remember saying 'A vampire book?' when I recommended Twilight?"

Touche, my friend, touche.

So, I liked it. More than Twilight, actually. I won't go into the story too much for fear of making you say, "sounds like science fiction." The story is about a girl that takes the place of her sister in a crazy fight to the death reality show (kinda.) The writing was fairly done, but the plot made up for any writing flaws that were there. I loved that the protagonist was not a flat, stereotypical girlie girl. She was strong, rebellious, and sometimes vulnerable woman. She was what I wanted Bella Swan to be. Not a whiny girl whose whole identity was wrapped up in if a boy liked her. What kind of role model is that for our teen girls?

The book kept me turning pages and I was sad as I closed in on the last few chapters. I didn't want it to end. I like that it was written with the forthsight of this book being first of a trilogy. I like even more that the next book is out in September.

What will I read until then? Any suggestions out there in blogland? Otherwise, I am going to have to break out my CFP stuff and get to studying. No one wants to do that in the summer!