A review by hushedworld
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

5.0

This trilogy was amazing. I fell in love with the characters. I thought the world was brilliantly woven. I thought the whole thing had subdued parallels to today's world. Politics & subterfuge without a care for the overall consequences or the devastation it might cause. Not just individual devastation but world wide. Oh, the Hunger for power. ...but also dressing kids up & sending them out into the "wild" (aka "Hollywood"?) for our entertainment? Ok, so maybe they aren't going in the "Arena" where it's a fight to the death but it seems like very few kids actually come out of that scene "whole" and "undamaged." & people are so possessive of their celebrities. Like, "how dare you.."-->show imperfection/be a human/gain weight/have a break-down/cut your hair that way... You know? & not even our children but the whole reality show kick (which often feel composed of children masquerading as barely adult)--feeding off the lesser and in some cases most cruel aspects of humanity & calling it entertainment? :( & the extremes of wasteful excess and carefully manufactured lack. The stirrings of rebellion against The System (when they cut off work and then brought everyone back with longer hours and half the pay? Hmmm.... seems vaguely familiar to me) and the barely veiled slavery to The System. I see it.
This review applies to the trilogy as a whole. I loved them all. I wept in despair. I cheered with triumph, fist raised in my mind & the whole nine yards. My heart ached and broke and was soothed and ached again. I couldn't put them down and now that I have read them I cannot stop thinking about them.
& I'm super excited to see what they do with these movies.