The Hunger Games Review

Last year for my Teaching High School English class we had to create a unit; a four month series of lessons that focused on a central theme. We had to pick this central theme from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Now, before this class I hadn’t had any urge to read this book but I did. In the beginning I was super bored, I’m not going to lie and say that I was hooked right off the bat because I wasn’t. It really took me to chapter 10 to get into it. After chapter 10 I was hooked. And when I got to the end I had to read the second and then the third. It’s a good book series and I recommend it but I won’t say it’s the best book series ever because it’s not.

Now, I was supposed to reread The Hunger Games for my Adolescent Lit class this semester. Of course, I didn’t and it didn’t really matter because we didn’t discuss it all that much. But! We knew the movie was coming out March 23rd so we arranged to go see it as a class on the 24th. I was super pumped to see the movie; I hadn’t heard a single bad review. In fact, most descriptions of it included “awesome”, “fantastic” and “amazing”.

This is my official rating of the movie: 3.5/5.

( There are spoilers beyond this point. You have been warned )