The Hunger Game is a collection of 3 adventure novels written by the American author Suzanne Collins. The series is set in The Hunger Gamings universe, and follows young characters Katniss Everdeen as well as Peeta Mellark.
The stories in the trilogy are labelled The Cravings Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and also Mockingjay (2010). The books have actually all been developed into movies, with the film adjustment of Mockingjay divided into 2 components. The initial two publications in the series were both New York Times best sellers, as well as Mockingjay topped all US bestseller checklists after its release. [1] [2] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was launched in 2012, the publisher had reported over 26 million Cravings Gamings trilogy publications in print, consisting of flick linkup books. [3]
The Appetite Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a nation including the wealthy Capitol and 12 areas in varying states of poverty. Each year, kids from the districts are selected to join a mandatory annual televised fatality match called The Cravings Games.
The books were all well gotten. In August 2012, the collection ranked second, defeated only by the Harry Potter collection in NPR's poll of the top 100 teenager novels, which asked voters to pick their favorite young adult books. [4] On August 17, 2012, Amazon revealed The Appetite Gamings trilogy as its leading vendor, surpassing the document formerly held by the Harry Potter collection. [5] As of 2014, the trilogy has actually marketed more than 65 million copies in the United States alone (more than 28 million duplicates of The Cravings Gamings, more than 19 million copies of Igniting, as well as greater than 18 million duplicates of Mockingjay). The Cravings Gamings trilogy has been sold right into 56 areas in 51 languages to this day.
The Appetite Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time, in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic country of Panem, located in the damages of North America. The country consists of the rich Capitol, situated in the Rocky Mountains, and 12 (formerly 13) poorer areas ruled by the Capitol. The Capitol is extravagantly abundant as well as highly advanced, yet the 12 areas are in differing states of hardship. The trilogy's narrator and also lead character, Katniss Everdeen, stays in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, formerly called Appalachia, where people on a regular basis pass away of starvation. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol (called the "Dark Days"), where 12 of the areas were beat, and also the 13th was apparently ruined, one kid and one woman from each of the 12 areas, in between the ages of 12 and 18, are selected by lotto to contend in the Appetite Games on an annual basis. The Games are a telecasted event in which the participants, called "homages", are forced to fight to the fatality in a harmful public arena. The winning tribute and also his/her residence area are then compensated with food, materials, and also riches. The functions of the Hunger Gamings are to offer home entertainment for the Capitol and to advise the districts of the Capitol's power as well as lack of regret.
