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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008 · 374 pages · Young adult
How it reads
The Hunger Games is young adult (dystopian adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an invented world, in the future, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are survival and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 374 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- young adult
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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