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I bought ‘Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and finished half of it sitting outside the bookstore in the middle of the mall, on a couch littered with a previous toddler’s cheerios.

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I then finished it that night at 3am, which was a horrible idea because the cliffhanger ending left me with dry, wild eyes and a slightly asthmatic shortness of breath.

I couldn’t sleep.

I booked it to the mall at opening hour Saturday, bought the 2nd installment ‘Catching Fire’…

… read it finished it obsessed about it and I am now completely inconsolable. The 3rd and final book comes out in 2010? LATE 2010?

“ARE YOU EFFING SERIOUS?????” I screeched, my eyes scanning my desk for weapons of self-destruction.

The Young Adult Dystopia genre that I totally trampled on in my last book post, is all but made up and forgiven (forgotten) because of this book.

In a slightly Firefly (the defunct TV show) take of the world, 1 excessively affluent Capital brutally governs 12 indecently impoverished Districts. To keep the Districts in check by fear governing, once a year a Hunger Game is held: 2 children under the age of 18 in each District are chosen randomly to fight to the death in a televised arena.

Sounds like Battle Royale, doesn’t it? Or that book Girl In The Arena. Or Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. Or-

But it’s so good. I can’t write a decent review until I get over my gushing, and by the time I get over my gushing I’m hoping I’ll have a slew of e-friends who’ve already read it and would like to get together for a gush gush party.

There’s extreme violence, a brilliantly tragic love story, pain suffering hope and THE MOST REFRESHING THING EVAR- when the characters reflect on something funny or witty, IT IS ACTUALLY FUNNY AND WITTY! Now I really don’t mean to pick on Bella Swan again, but her idea of intensely hilarious wit is “don’t get a brain hemorrhage, Jake’. FACE PALM.

okay.
talk to me about it please. will reply. need to gush.