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This book is literary crack. I couldn't put it down. The world is at once familiar and incredibly strange. So fascinating. The stakes are unbelievably high! I was captivated instantly and couldn't turn the pages fast enough. The only drawback, in my opinion, is the fact that the characters feel two-dimensional in many ways. Katniss is an unreliable narrator because she is a survivor, first and foremost. She only notices what she needs to know to survive, so the secondary characters come across as undeveloped in many ways. Also, I was disappointed that the author took the hardest decisions away from Katniss. The only contestants she had to kill were the "bad" contestants. The things we were truly dreading (How would she kill Rue????) never happened. That made it feel like Katniss never had to really push herself to her limits until the end. However, the book demands instant consumption, so these small complaints are barely noticeable. I've recommended this book to countless people. So good.