I was unsure of these books when my roommate was explaining them to me. SciFi is not usually my thing. However I was quickly drawn in by the first few pages of book one and found that I could not put them down. I read all three books in a week and was very sad to see them end. The author takes the reader into a world so vivid that you feel like you are there with the main character. I had to know what happened next! The first movie comes out in March, I am very excited to see if the world I have created in my head will line up with the world they will portray in the movies. Get out and ready it, you will not be disappointed!

This series is one of my all time favourite because it has a lot of action in it. The characters are developed well and the storyline is amazing. I am so glad when I went into Chapters and stumbled upon this book and decided to read it I have no regrets at all.

I was going to start off by saying this book is my guilty pleasure - after all, it's from the "Young Adult" section. But having gobbled it down in just under 2 days (would have been less, but apparently I have to eat, sleep, work, and take care of my family), I'm willing to say it's just a Pleasure. No guilt about it.

I was very disappointed in Twilight, but I didn't have huge expectations going in anyway. This book has all the best parts of Twilight (a twist on the classic story, elements of darkness and beauty in the characters, etc), but has mega advantages:

1. You actually like these characters. The protagonist Katniss is a strong female lead - no simpering or frailty here. She's a character you root for, along with the rest of the cast. She has conflicting emotions, but it's written from the perspective of teenage angst and coming of age, whereas characters in Twilight were underdeveloped or just mono-dimensional.

2. there is gore, but just enough to make it tantalizing to older readers rather than gratuitous. Romantic subplots maneuver more subtly through the story instead of being the main driver; family relationships are better portrayed.

This book is a little bit Madeleine L'Engle, a little bit 1984, and just enough shmoopy teenage romance that it has this 30-something's heartrate up.

I read it initially to vett before allowing my daughter to read it. I promptly swallowed the whole series and she had to yank it out of my hands. I guess that part I do feel kinda guilty about.

If you liked the idea of Twilight but were let down by the series as a whole, try The Hunger Games trilogy. You will not be disappointed.

This is a great book. It's part of a 3 part series. So far I've read the first two and I can't wait to get my hands on the third/last book. A colleague of mine recommended these books to me when I told her how disappointed I was with the Twilight series.

I am so glad that she recommended these books to me! This is how a suspence/romance/thriller book should read! I'm not an avid reader by any means so I was surprised when I totally zipped through the book in 3 days! I highly recommend this series.

If they make a movie about it, I am definitely going to go watch it (and I know that they will definitely be better than Twllight). =P

Read it on saturday in one go, and can't stop thinking about it today. Peeta! Rue! Gale! Prim! (I'm naming characters by the way), It's one of those stick-in-your-head-like-honey books, and depresses me to no end, but Definitely worth it! I understsand what all the hype was about, and it's a GREAT after-harry-potter-read!

So, after all the hype of the movie coming out, I decided to try reading this book. I wasn't sure what to think of it at first since it's for teens but I'm glad I read it. It was an excellent book! Don't read it if you're not into deaths and fighting. This was an intense book and now i can't wait to go home to read the second one. It's nowhere as good as Harry Potter in my opinion but definitely a good read and I'm excited for the movie to come out.