Another book down, and this one was for fun and fluff. The Hunger Games is the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins that was recently featured at the Dayton Metro Library website. The themes are more serious than I was expecting. The setting is a future America controlled by a brutal state. Annually, teens from the nation’s twelve regions are pitted against one another in a vicious, gladiatorial style event, the Hunger Games. We follow one of the contestants as she wrestles with the brutality of the games and her own need to survive.

Despite the gravity of the book, it fit the bill for a quick easy read. Being juvenile fiction helped, too. I’ve got the second book, Catching Fire, on the shelf, and the final book, Mockingjay, is due out this August.