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Sep, 2023

REVIEW: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Film Adaptation: The Hunger Games (2012)

The Hunger Games is a young adult dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins and the first in the Hunger Games Trilogy. It follows the main protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl who is forced to make the only choice she can when she steps forward to take her young sister’s place in the televised fight for survival, The Hunger Games. Twelve boys and girls have to fight against not only themselves but the game they were put in until one victor comes out alive. But Katniss has been living off of her flight or fight instinct for five years; she only knows the fight for survival, and she will not go down easily.

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11
Jun, 2023

REVIEW: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a High Fantasy Novel by Sarah J. Maas and the first book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Feyre is only nineteen, and yet her family’s lives rest on her shoulders. Her world is bleak and cold, and everything is a fight to survive. Until one choice, one arrow changes everything, an action to feed the ones she has sworn to protect means she is ripped from the world she has known, a world where she has fought tooth and nail to survive and dropped into a world that seems anything but hard—peaceful, perhaps. Finding her footing, finding where she stands now, will be challenging, but with creatures, she knows only tales about surrounding her and secrets, so many secrets, being kept from her, this colourful land may be harder than the one she came from. What would you do for love? Just how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Which lines would you cross?

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28
May, 2023

REVIEW: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Rating: 3 out of 5.

If I Stay is a Young Adult novel by Gayle Forman, the first in the If I Stay duology. This book covers just over twenty-four hours of Mia Hall, a seventeen-year-old cellist’s afterlife. Mia is stuck in a limbo state after her world is thrown off kilter due to a tragic car accident. The world exists as it always has, but she is stuck watching as her body is treated at the hospital and her family and friends gather in the hope that she will wake from her comatose state. But her life will never be the same as it was; everything has been taken from her, and all she is left with is a possible choice. Whether it is hers or not to make, she still has to decide if she should stay or go.

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