Book Report: The Hunger Games series

Let's just put it out there right up front. I'm an obsessive reader and this series played to my weaknesses - so it gets 4/5 stars. Not enough to change my life, but I absolutely tore through them (3 books, 4 days... thank you Kindle!). Post - apocalyptic North America, separated into districts where people are essentially slaves - that have to send annual "tribunes" (essentially child gladiators) to fight to the death. I loved the action. I loved the love triangle. I loved that there was a tough girl oblivious to 'the effect she could have'. I'm stoked I read them before the movie comes out next year, and am sad its over.

Good character naming and development, realistic reactions and emotion, original plots, enough descriptions of the environment to visualize being there. The only complaint I had was it was too darn short of a series!