Having seen all the hype on the internet about the casting for the upcoming movie version of ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins, I’ve been meaning to read the book for a while. On Sunday I finally sat down and devoured the book within a few hours. Seriously it was great! I’m not usually into dystopian novels, but there was something about this one that meant I couldn’t put it down.

The initial premise about reality show in which teens are pitted against each other to fight until the death really intrigued me and the whole way through I had the eerie feeling that this could one day become a reality. The way the so-called ‘Gamemakers’ manipulate the players into fighting each other was not unlike the way producers engineer the events of so-called reality shows like Jersey Shore (granted Snooki and co aren’t killing each other, yet). It was thrilling, tense and at times, tragically sad.

Many articles I’ve read about the books have compared them to The Twilight Saga novels, but honestly, Twilight is nothing compared to these. The Hunger Games are more exciting, more interesting and have a female lead who you actually care about. I’m looking forward to seeing the movie version next year and think Jennifer Lawrence is going to be brilliant.