"Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Review " is a violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense.I couldn't stop reading it." ".brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.a futuristic novel every bit as good and as allegorically rich as Scott Westerfeld's 'Uglies' books." Publishers Weekly, Megan Whalen Turner, STARRED REVIEW It isn't just the contestants who risk the loss of their humanity. In order not to hate these creatures who are sending her to her death, she imagines them as pets. "They're so unlike people that I'm no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet," she thinks. When Katniss is sent to stylists to be made more telegenic before she competes, she stands naked in front of them, strangely unembarrassed.
"What happens if we choose entertainment over humanity? In Collins's world, we'll be obsessed with grooming, we'll talk funny, and all our sentences will end with the same rise as questions.
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