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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Well, I liked Harry Potter until it turned too dark for my tastes. I'd say Hunger Games is too dark for my tastes. I don't even like the blurb much. I have NOT read Hunger Games, but my take on it as comparing it to Harry Potter is that it is probably closer to the books after book 4 than the first 3. But I didn't read after book 4. Or maybe it was book 5 of Harry Potter that I stopped.
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Hunger Games is as dark as you think. Darker than Potter by a lot.
Potter never got as dark as Hunger Games starts, and HG gets progressively darker all the way through.
That is its merit. It is unrelentingly true to its vision.
(Pollyanna would suicide rather than finish the third volume.)
It is a very good book and the movies, so far, do it justice. Maybe a bit more blatant in the culture war aspects than the books but they stay on the right side of 2x4 messaging.
You really need to be in the right mood to enjoy them, especially if you find first person present narratives jarring.