Suzanne Collins “The Hunger Games”
I just finished reading the first part in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy today. And, considering I have read 54 books already this year (several of which I liked quite a lot), it says something that this one was the one that blew me away enough to post it here. 
Funnily, it had an endorsement from (of all people!) Stephenie Meyer on the cover, which normally would have been reason enough for me to never touch the book, if I hadn’t read so many good things about it elsewhere.
I found the story to be surprisingly fantastic. Surprisingly, because normally books that get so much praise rarely live up to that in my opinion. But this one definitely did. This is one of the rare stories where I caught myself thinking “damn, I wish I had written that!” all the time. And from a certain point on (I’d say around chapter 2 or so) I just couldn’t put it down anymore.
I already ordered the sequel on Amazon today and can’t wait for it to get delivered to my doorstep. And then starts the long wait for the third one, which is scheduled to be released in August.
The last time I was this excited about a trilogy was with Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” trilogy (which meanwhile consists of 4 books).
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