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The Unofficial Hunger Games Companion. By Lois H. Gresh (2012)

by Lois H. Gresh(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1447209974 (ISBN13: 9781447209973)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

MacMillan Children's Books

review 1: This book mostly detailed historical references to events that were somewhat related in the Hunger Game series. There was a little bit of a discussion of themes in the Hunger Games and how to relates to other historic events, but it was pretty weak and reminds me of a middle school student's book report. The entire book felt very amateur and thrown together. An example chapter: Weapons. They used an ax, knife, and bow and arrow in Hunger Games. Now I am going to detail the origins of these three weapons and how they are used today. And at the end I will throw in a few brief details about how they were used in the Hunger Games series. The book felt like a Wikipedia entry that never ended.
review 2: When I first picked up this book, flipped through the table of c... moreontents and skimmed a couple pages, I was excited. What a great concept! Exploring some of the subject matter of the popular Hunger Games books in more depth - especially since the trilogy itself leaves readers wanting more. And the topics that the author, New York Times writer, Lois Gresh, chose to address sounded interesting and well worth exploring, if slightly morbid. Despite the promising concept, I quickly became disillusioned with the execution of the book and with the author. I guess I held her to high standards, based on her background as a writer for the Times. There were grammatical errors peppered throughout, and occasionally, she would use phrasing that didn't express the intended/accurate meaning. For example, when talking about Rue's death, she states that Katniss didn't make it to her friend's side "on time," which implies they had a set meeting time that Katniss was thoughtlessly late for, as opposed to the more accurate "in time." This misuse of wording makes it appear that Katniss's thoughtlessness results in Rue's death, as opposed to her inability to physically reach her friend in time and intercept the sword that ultimately kills Rue. There are many such instances of questionable wording, as well as blatant inaccuracies and instances of her using/twisting quotes from the Hunger Games trilogy to make or illustrate her point, even if she was taking the statements out of context and making them "say" untruths by the way she used them. Because it's fair for readers to assume that the author had read the three Hunger Games books, in order to undertake writing a book titled The Hunger Games Companion, there are some times you wonder if it's intentional or just thoughtlessness that leads to the numerous inaccurate statements in this book, whether she might have meant one thing (which would be accurate), but because of her careless selection and use of a particular word, the statement became inaccurate. It was the multiplicity of these untruths and the simplistic description by the author of the main Hunger Games character, Katniss as "nice" and "kind" that really angered and annoyed me, so much so that after about the first two chapters, each time I picked up the book to continue reading, I found myself angry at the author, and wanting to violently throw the book into the bathtub. less

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