A nice surprise 2

I came very late in the Hunger Games, and it is a great surprise. I gave the book to my 19 year old niece, who has read a few days, and who lent my son, 14, who has devoured in less than a week, a feat for he who is a fierce manga reader, but for which the novels are crossbred school obligations and often mean more displeasure than pleasure. So I engaged and have read Hunger Games my turn, a reading that has carried me quickly, 3 intense days, panting, rhythmic, a real pleasure, I loved the sense of urgency that I had to finish this story, a rare and precious feeling.

So I devoured the story of Katniss, who lives in a world between "1984" by George Orwell and "Marche ou Crève" Stephen King: in a totalitarian society, the government pulls every year 24 children (between 12 and 18) draw for they are killing in a televised game and binding. Katniss, heroin, volunteered to replace her younger sister 12 who had been selected.

The story is urgent, rapid panting suspense is there, even if we doubt that Katniss will come out, one wonders which of his companions will be saved and how. The death of some of these children comes as a shock, and inventiveness of the author is appreciable. I just started the second volume, we find the same tone, the same tension, the same urgency, a real pleasure! To read, then!