great storytelling, exciting story, but oppressively ...

I devoured these books. That they are supposed to be young people's books, was my accounts (I think it makes itself if at all noticeable only in the absence of too hot love scenes) after a few pages. I'm also not sure if all the young people tolerate so disillusioning story. One thing becomes clear when reading: From this story no one comes home safe and happy out.

For me as an adult, this was one of the best fantasy / science fiction books for a long time. Multi-layered, incredibly enthralling and downright oppressive logically - without getting bored (like so many others) with too many details and historical background. Life (and death) of people in the districts is inhuman and brutal, and yet you will not shake the feeling that everything could actually just gather in a not too distant time ... Suzanne Collins describes a possible world, which is coherent to the last detail. And just like in reality there are many unexpected "grays" here. Sure, the Capitol is evil through and through, and the rebels are thoroughly well ... until you take a look behind the scenes and have to say: No Peace Joy Pancake idyll. That's what makes the nightmarish history: Nothing is just good. Everything is bought with a price. None of the hero comes with a crisp white vest from the thing out, and there is no "Happily ever after". After such experiences simply nobody can be happy. What remains are wounded people who laboriously trying first steps into a new life, and the hope that things will get better in the future ...
The end precedes an adventurous, but rarely really lighthearted story with many imaginative twists. And although even stuck the heroes full of weaknesses, make wrong choices or even resort to despicable means - they always remain alive, human and endearing. Like the unadjusted and yet so vulnerable Katniss with her misfortunes cope as she tries under unfassbarem pressure to save at least one rest of their ideals - that is so captivating described that I had to share the excitement until the end.

For "Hardware":
I would advise anyone who has the opportunity to highly recommend to read the story in the American original.
And who -so as I- emphasis on states that his favorite books do not go so fast from the glue, which I put the beautifully presented, bound books this box sets his heart.