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 Twelve districts. One boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18. A game where only one can survive in order to maintain peace and conquer eternal glory. Tormented souls destined to kill for the entertainment of others. 
 What a brutal story! I only knew enough of what was going to happen in this book by looking at the title, but the truth is that I wasn't expecting all of these inhuman slaughters and betrayals mingled with a love triangle. 
 The book can be reduced to one simple word: Hunger. Physical and emotional hunger. 
 Throughout the whole book, we are constantly reading about how food is not everlasting. In most stories, if the characters eat or not is irrelevant. In The Hunger Games it's crucial. The author shows us how food is the substance that keep us going, Katniss as a hunter and even Peeta as member of a baker's family. But Suzanne Collins is not only talking about the physical starvation but also that unstoppable hunger lead by the need to survive. 
 The characters seemed real to me. I loved Kaniss, it was easy for me to feel related to her by the way she handled everything: with a cold mind even we she had an explosive personality. 
 Collins works brilliantly with the pace of the story, she makes it easy to be immersed in the pages. For less than 24 hours, this book took my breath away. I can still feel my body aching for all the tension I suffered while reading it. 
 Maybe it's the adrenaline still flowing in my veins, or maybe not, but I will give this book 5 stars for making my heartbeat accelerate and agitate my soul in only 375 pages.