The Hunger Games

[nissymouse]

I don't know if I'm ever going to write a real review. I liked it because it was very well written, because it was different. I like the heroine for being plain and not always master of the situation

Comments

[sunnycouger]

Glad you enjoyed it. I've heard good things about the first book but apparently the standard doesn't stay at that level, so I'm glad you enjoyed them.

Have you read Briar Rose by Jane Yolen? Maybe not one for a happily ever after but probably the best YA book I've read in recent years.

[nissymouse]

Well, I've read the first one, which I liked, but I'm hesitating to read the next one. But when I get them on Monday I'll read the rest, just to know how it turns out.

I've never read Briar Rose. What is it about?

[sunnycouger]

Briar Rose is amazing. It's about a girl whose grandmother kept telling her the story of Briar Rose all through her childhood but with a different spin on it than any other version other children hear. When the grandmother dies the now grown up grand-daughter makes her a promise to go and find out her story, because even through old age and dementia she still maintained she was Briar Rose. The book is beautiful and heart-breaking and has the unlikely plot point of combining a fairytale and a story about the Holocaust but it works so well. I have no idea why it's been marketed as YA book (but I have no idea why The Book Thief got marketed as a YA book in the US either) but I highly recommend it.