The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins

Wow.

There's not much else to say.

I have been avoiding this series for a while. I even checked this book out once or twice before, but never quite got around to getting in to it. I read a couple pages but that was it.

This time, however, I devoured the book whole.

I got tripped up in the writing maybe twice, where I was aware I was reading and not viewing a particularly intense real thing. But this could be just because of the points where I was forced to start or stop at. Generally, I was so engrossed - I couldn't tell I was reading. It was very difficult to put down. That is the mark of a great book (when you get so lost in the words that you forget where you are, and what you are doing).

It's such a simple book, in some ways. Deceptively so. It is written at a standard level, not difficult to read, but not so simplistically that it is any less enticing. This is a book the masses could read (and are, obviously). It's not so much the plot or the characters, but the sense of movement throughout. Fluidity is engaging. The main character is simplistically flawed, but not so much that it detracts. The main pulse of this story is the movement - when actions happen, it's almost as if you were waiting for them to - they are not a surprise, but it's really the journey that carries the reader. Not what happens or doesn't happen to whom.

Excellent read.

I went to Books A Million last night to pick up the second book. I didn't want to wait on the library ...it could be days! What ever shall I do? I didn't go through with the purchase at the end. So we shall see.

But very, very good.