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Sup! Nate here and today I will be reviewing the Hunger Games series. Yeah, I never read this series until a couple months ago. But I finally got around to it, so let's jump right into the review! Summary (spoilers afoot!) The Hunger Games series is a trilogy by Suzanne Collins that is set in a dystopian future. America has been destroyed by war, and Panem is its successor as a nation. The Capitol of Panem rigidly controls its 12 districts ever since they tried to rebel, and as payment, two children are chosen from each district to participate in the annual Hunger Games--a fight to the death that is turned into entertainment. Katniss Everdeen from District 12 volunteers as tribute to protect her sister from having to participate, and a boy named Peeta who she only met once before is chosen with her. The two go to the Capitol and manage to both win the Games with some quick thinking to outwit the Capitol (that's a vast oversimplification, read the book if you want to kno...

This past month, I’ve read a few books, all of them being disappointing, unfortunately. I wasn’t exactly sure why I disliked them, I just knew that there was something about each of them that left me unmoved and bored. However, after some retrospection, I found the sources of my dissatisfaction with one of the books, which was called Shouting at the Rain.              Shouting at the Rain follows a girl named Delsie, and her life on Cape Cod. She lives with her grandmother, and has no recollection of either of her parents, as they left her when she was young. Delsie not knowing who her parents are becomes a main theme in the story and remains as one of Delsie’s biggest focuses in her life. What seems to be the main conflict of the book besides Delsie’s parentage is her summer best friend dumping her for a new friend named Tressa. For the majority of the book, Delsie tries to deal with one of her only friend...