User blog comment:DryYoshi/The Hunger Games Movie Hype Blog/@comment-3101374-20120322082500/@comment-4319470-20120322211749

PLEASE, PLEASE read the books. When I first heard about them at school for the book fair 3 or so years ago, it creeped me out but intrigued me since it was such a....different topic to write about. I read it, thinking it would be somewhat of a horror, but then fell in LOVE. The characters are so real and well-made, and it has just the right amount of twists in it. And on top of that, the author intelligently ends every chapter with a statement that makes you read on. Kept me up till 3 before. Also, you really get attached to the people in the book, which makes it all the more difficult to read about them dying (if they do die, of course, but many people die in this trilogy). I don't know what it is with these books that's so intriguing and makes it my favorite series - I normally don't think I would enjoy this - but there's just this...surreal (?) feeling I get or something. I can't describe it. But these books are amazing. And many people have not been looking into reading it because it's "all about kids killing kids", but the plot, no, the novels themselves are formed by them fighting AGAINST things like this. :)