The Hunger Games

In the book The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, a girl named Katniss struggles to feed her family,
younger sister and mother, in what is left of human society in north America. When illegal hunting doesn't supply enough food, she signs up for tesserae . Katniss lives in the poorest district of their country, called Panem. In Panem a type of gladiatorial contest is held annually in which children between the ages of 12 and 18 are forced to fight to the death until there is only one child left. Each year, children's names are entered into a district-wide drawing to see which girl and which boy will be entered into the national contest, and if a person signs up for tesserae, their name is added in more than the people who don't sign up for tesserae. This is Katniss' sister's first year being eligible for the drawing, and somehow Her name is drawn. Katniss decides to volunteer to take her sister's place in order to save her from the gladiatorial games.
The author does a good job of incorporating literary elements into this book. One literary element that the author incorporates into to the story is flashback. Suzanne uses flashback to give the reader information about Katniss at various points in the story. One instance is when the reader learns about how desperate Katniss and her family are for food after her father dies in a mining accident. According to the book, Katniss was so hungry that she was going up and down the streets looking for things to eat in people's garbage. She eventually makes it to the bakery's garbage and gets yelled at by the baker's wife. She then sits down next to a tree and starts to cry because she has lost all hope in finding something to eat. Another case of when the author uses flashback is when Katniss is describing what her and her father were doing when she was young, and what her father was like before he died. At one point in the story, Kitaniss is describing how her dad taught her how to hunt and how they walked in the forest together outside of District 12. The author does do a good job at incorporating literary elements into the story, but that's pretty much the only good thing about this book, in a personal opinion.
I must say I wasn't a very big fan of this book. I felt like this book was definitely geared towards girls, and, being a guy, I don't really like it. The first reason that I don't like it is because it has a love plot to it. Being a guy, love stories don't interest me at all. The second reason that I don't like this story is because the author tried to incorporate a guy-themed aspect to it by making children kill other children. You can't really have a book that has a love story theme and then fill it with gore; it doesn't work. The third, and probably most important, reason is the fact the children are killing other children!! Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?? What kind people would be attracted to a book where children are killing other children?? In an honest opinion, this book seems like it was written for people that are creepy because no one in their right mind would want to see children killing other children, especially some one's own child/children.