"May the odds be ever in your favor"

If you have not heard of The Hunger Games yet, you will in a couple months time. Currently it is a bestselling book series that is being made into a movie in March of 2012. The books take place in the future in the destructed land once known as America, where the Capital is in control of the other districts. Every year, for their entertainment, they put on The Hunger Games, where one boy and one girl from every district must fight to the death. Katniss volunteers for her younger sister, and from then on her life changes in ways she would never expect.

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Throughout the books, you can’t help but fall in love with Peeta, the other tribute chosen opposite Katniss. He has always been in love with Katniss and says the sweetest things to her and always does the right thing. Throughout the first book, Katniss plays up their romance in order to survive as a ploy against the other players.

Peeta is particularly appealing to me in the series because of his ardent love for Katniss. Though she is (at first!) faking any love between the two, he means everything he says. I think the conversations that go on between Katniss and Peeta are so precious when they are in the games as the desperation sets in. Peeta will melt any girl’s heart. Their conversations are very intimate and deep and thoughtful and real.

I think the situation Katniss is in makes any girl wish they could change places. Also, Katniss’s character is very attractive because of her tom-boy personality. Throughout the book, we see her thoughts and feelings and see she is a survivor at heart and is very instinctual. Peeta on the other hand, has a lot to learn about being in the woods. I know for me, I like Katniss’s character because of the survival skills she has that I lack. It’s refreshing to have a heroine that can actually take care of herself! Because of her headstrong attitude, she does not feel she needs a guy to rely on or take care of her, and that is why it is so romantic to me when we see them fall in love. The Hunger Games situation is so unreal and I think that adds to the appeal, like any other movie and book series that makes it big.

For more on what happens to Katniss and Peeta, read the books!