The Hunger Games

Despite the hectic summer I just left, filled with nonstop working, I managed to read a book. Actually, I managed to read three. The well known Hunger Games Series captured my attention more than any other book in a very long time. Suzanne Collins has such an amazing gift of putting the reader in the story with the characters that it sometimes was hard to separate that world from my own.  It started with The Hunger Games where 24 children were selected to participate in  a fight to the death.   She ended the book in such a way that I instantly got in the car and drove to buy the next book. I simply couldn't wait to begin the next one. The next book, Catching Fire, simply carried on the thrill of the first. And the series ends with the final book, Mockingjay. I won't spoil the endings of any of these novels for those of you who haven't read it and desire to do so. But the second book ended in a suspenseful way as well. Luckily, I was smart enough to buy the second and third books at once, that way I could immediately start the third. These novels go down in my top list of favorite novels. I suggest buying all three at once to save time and gasoline.  Paul Sweeney once said, "You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." I couldn't have said it better myself.