Once, many years ago, there was a rebellion in Panem. Unfortunately, Disctrict 13 was taken off the map, and the districts lost. To show that the Capitol is still in control, they started a little thing called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a televised fight to the death basically. Two "tributes" are chosen from each district, each between the ages of 12 and 18. The tributes are drawn from a glass bowl. Each year, the amount of times that their names are put into the bowl increases and they get their name put in even more if they do tesserae. The day of the reaping, Katniss Everdeen's younger sister, Prim, got called to be a tribute. Horrified, Katniss decided to volunteer for her sister and go in her place. The male tribute was Peeta Mellark, the one who Katniss will always remember as saving her life when she almost starved to death. She couldn't even imagine killing him.
Their mentor, Haymitch, was a drunk. But he promised that he would stay as sober as possible if they listened to him. Through training in the capitol and the pre-games activities, Peeta and Katniss came out on top thanks to their prep team and Cinna and Portia, their stylists. They were the most popular, which could help with sponsoring and keeping them alive. They also started an "act" of being in love.
Once they were in the arena, Katniss stopped trusting Peeta when she saw him with the Careers (the allied team of killers). But when the careers found her, Peeta helped save her life. Soon after that, the gamemakers announced that two tributes could win this year, as long as they were from the same district. Immediately, Katniss went searching for Peeta and nursed him back to health since he was injured from saving her life. They became allies and worked hard to win, also... Katniss learned that Peeta really did love her, but she couldn't shake her thoughts of Gale, her best friend, waiting back at home.
Throughout the games, they both met people and had to see them die. For Katniss, the hardest death to watch was little Rue's. When it came to the fight to the death in the middle of the arena, instead of Katniss and Peeta having to kill the last tribute, a pack of Mutts came on him and unfortunately, he couldn't beat them like Katniss and Peeta did, and he was ripped apart until he died. Katniss and Peeta thought that they had won, but soon the announcer came over the speaker and told them that the rules had been changed yet again, and that one would have to kill the other. Katniss, knowing that the gamemakers would never let both of them die, decided to come up with a plan. She gave Peeta some poisonous berries and told him that they would both eat them at the same time and commit suicide so that there would be no winner. The gamemakers panicked and announced both Peeta and Katniss as victors. They won the games.
On the way home, things got tough for them and Katniss now knew that Peeta really loved her, but she couldn't quite figure out her feelings for him and she knew that the fight between the country and herself had only just begun.
I loved this book and I was very eager to get the next one. I liked how it was action packed but there was still some romance. And Prim and Katniss's relationship reminded me of my own relationship with my sister. It was a great book!
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