Hunger Games series

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This is my short little review on the Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay books by Suzanne Collins.

Don't worry, no spoilers.

The story is fairly solid all the way through, but I definitely like the first book best. The ending is bittersweet, but definitely provides closure and doesn't leave me wondering too much. Personally I always enjoy stories that end with certain finality, even if it's not always a happy ending.

I was at first mildly put off that the story was told from first person perspective of a teenage girl (I was worried I would be reading something like Twilight), but it does in a way kind of give some insight to the way women think and feel. It really did explain some of my own personal dealings with women. And the girl Katniss Everdeen herself wasn't pathetic or useless (like the chick from Twilight) but indeed a very strong character so I didn't mind seeing the dangerous and dystopian world presented in the story through her eyes.

My main gripe about the books are the names given to the characters.
Some are just so weird and not very memorable, even verging on just plain stupid. I often found my self forgetting some random character's name and would lose association to any significance that character might have had on the development of the story.

Basically I found myself often seeing some random name getting brought up in a reference or some flashback and I would be like "okay who the **** was that" and felt like I was missing out on some key detail.

Overall, I completely recommend this series if you enjoyed the movie.
Or if you like sci-fi and don't mind a little drama.

I'm not going to give this a rating because my preferences are usually pretty black and white, I either like it or I don't so any rating from me would be arbitrary at best.