Helpful Score: 3
I read this because I heard my granddaughter's teacher was reading it in the classroom. I had heard it was about a futuristic fight to the death. I read all three books in a weeks time. I do not like to read sci-fi or anything that's murder and mayhem much less watch anything like that. I will admit I couldn't put them down hence reading them all in one week and staying up to 1 or 2 am and having to work the next day. I did find that Suzanne Collins did not go in to great depth explaining the murders but you still know that's what's going on. Yet I still walked away thinking this is being read to impressionable young people... I felt the book kept me interested and wondering what was going to happen next. There is a part of me that still thinks it's junk marketed at a vulnerable age group and for them it's mind trash. Let's fill our kids thoughts with good and positive things. I let someone at work read it too and she thought it also was not a good book for middle school children. The unusual thing is that one grandchild is interested in the Civil War. He re-enacts it at school/home and makes a "pretend" gun out of anything he can get his hands on-they discourage historical re-enactment yet read young people murdering one another for survival and it's glorified. Considering the recent murders in our state you think the "educators" would reconsider what they are placing in the minds of children.
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