HOLY FRED AND GEORGE BEST SEQUEL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe not THE BEST ever as in EVER, but the best one I can remember reading. In fact, this book was better than the first by an almost landslide for me.

The first book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, merely interested me. I loved the storyline and it was a great book, but I figured it would just be another series I read and remembered vaguely as "Oh yeah, that was a good book, wasn't it?" In The Hunger Games we meet Katniss who lives in a postapocalyptic world called Panem, ruled by a President that separated the world into 12 Districts. Katniss lives in District 12, the coal mining district, and everyone is very poor and close to starvation. But kids can help their families; they simply write their name down for the tesserae and they receive a bag of grain for their family. But there's a catch: they'll be entered into a drawing for the Hunger Games, a battle-to-the-death contest between a male and female from each district (24 contestants total) where everyone is tossed into an arena for survival of the fittest. When Katniss' little sister gets picked, she volunteers for her and wins the Hunger Games, pretending to be in love with the male from her district, Peeta, to get them both out of there alive, which is unheard of in Hunger Games history.

Fast forward almost a year later. Katniss and Peeta are supposedly madly in love (Peeta for real, Katniss pretending because the President is threatening her) and they're touring Panem one district at a time. Since the public figured out how Katniss and Peeta defied the Capitol (government), districts are forming their own rebellions. Katniss seems to stand for them, and this makes the Capitol nervous. In fact, they use Katniss' mockingjay pin as a rebellion symbol.

Now here comes the plot twist: KATNISS AND PEETA GET TOSSED BACK INTO THE HUNGER GAMES. Just when you were wondering where the heck the plot in this sequel was going (admit it, you know you were) IT GETS AWESOME! And death defying! And crazy!

That's why this is the best sequel ever. So read The Hunger Games series, because it will amaze you. And just when there seems to be no way to survival, they get there anyway. This book also takes the cake for one of the best male monologues I've heard out of a teenage character. Peeta has this amazing speech when another contestant is dying and he's talking about colors (dang the copyright laws, or I would put it here) and it was so amazing.

Also attesting to how great this book is: I could be heard screaming NO, PEETA, NO, PLEASE LIVE!!!!!!!!!!! from my room. The people who heard me were downstairs.