The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I made the mistake of watching the film adaptation of The Hunger Games before reading the novel. Throughout the film I felt as if chunks of the story were missing, so I of course rushed out to read the book immediately. Sadly even though it filled in several of the gaps I still felt as if something were missing from the story. The premiss of the tale is that each one of twelve districts must provide a male and female tribute to essentially be sacrificed in the annual Hunger Games as punishment for the Rebellion. I was not as impressed by the book as I had hoped I would be, but none-the-less am excited to read the next installment of the series.