I wasn't sure about this book as futuristic stories aren't my thing. I decided to read it because all the kids were reading it and even some of my fellow senior adults had read it and recommended it. It was easy to get into the story and I was surprised to find how well the main character, Katniss, was developed. The story is told through her narration of the events that occur to her when she replaces her little sister, Prim, when Prim is chosen as one of the children chosen from their area to go to fight to the death while the world watches. Besides it being a great story, I can see how there area analogies to this story to many other eras in world history when civilizations decline. For instance, there is the time in the Roman Empire when people from either the slave classes or other hated people (Christians) are put in the arena to fight to the death while people who are so removed from the lives of the ones chosen to fight that they do not even think of them as human with feelings. As others have said the story is written for young adults and it shows, and the author could have used a good English editor as there are some grammatical errors (misplaced participles, etc.), but that is not a distraction. Be prepared, though, it is not a book of humor.
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