This book was had to fall into at first, which could have been completely fashioned to be that way by the author. The whole book, in a sense mimics the narrative created within it. Katniss was hard to fall in love with Peeta much like I was the book. However, once I got into it, it was like I had become love-sick. I couldn't put it down, my heart was racing, it was new and completely unique.
Every successful story has inherent human truths within it (Much like a great advertisement I might add) and this story captured a lot of the emotions within my first love story. At time in the story however, I found my self caught up more in the environment the author created than the characters themselves. The thoughts of force-fields, hovercrafts, and magical flying cameras. Juxtaposed with this Huckle-berry finn vibe that consumed District 12 was baffling. At times I felt myself forcing my mind to resort to the Cowboys V.S. Aliens setting just so I could wrap my mind around it.
However, one of the main questions I came across was, "If they have all of this sweet technology, how is it that their weapons hadn't advanced much past the stone-age?" It perplexed me, why couldn't they be given lazer cannons, tazers, and plasma swords? If the author wanted to keep them as savage as possible, then why give them some sort of advanced night vision moon-glasses?
Once I started to stomach certain variables throughout the book I began to read deeper into the societal segregation, cultural symbols, character archetypes, and over-arching story. I enjoyed the cleverness of placing this within N. America and keeping the world boundaries relatively small, It's almost I could picture it all happening within the size of one state in the Mid-Atlantic region. The hovercrafts reminded me of the jetsons for some reason, the interviews like American Idol stage set-ups in the streets, and the actual event to me was reminiscent of The Most Dangerous Game, or any of these.
I loved the book and look forward to the next one! (The costume descriptions were breath-taking)
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