Hunger Games Trilogy and Divergent Series are both Young Adult dystopian books set in post-apocalyptic era. When I started reading Hunger Games, I realized that I loved dystopian novels because there is a sense and a need to resolve the conflict unlike other young adult books.

It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

As the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, it continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem. Following the events of the previous novel, a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol has begun, and Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are forced to return to the arena in a special edition of the Hunger Games.

The book continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, who agrees to lead the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical Capitol.

I watched the Hunger Games movie only this April because I don't like action movies that shows killing, slaying, fighting, any kind of violence that is hard-core. My friends describe it as a survival-of-the-fittest book so I rather not bother watching it. Then one night, I got bored and felt the need of watching movies and I was left without a choice but to press for The Hunger Games Movie.

In all honesty, I love the movie and it was then that I decided to read the books. Suzzane Collins did a great job in writing the book, it can be understand by different readers but I can't relate to Katniss Everdeen's emotions maybe because we are total opposite.

Rating: 4.1

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

However, I got hooked in Divergent Series, although the final installment is not out yet. I liked the idea of the five factions, I love the protagonist's personality (Tris Prior), I am enchanted by Four's personality as well which is Tris' love interest, and the characters are well-describe and well-supported. Although, there are some part that I got lost but I have no real regrets for it. Indeed, Veronica Roth justified everything and I must say that it goes beyond the Hunger games trilogy.

The Divergent Movie will be released on May of 2014 starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James. 

Rating: 4.7

The story begins with a prologue entitled "Eleven Years Ago", in which Wendy recounts her sixth birthday party. She expresses contempt at the gifts of fragile porcelain dolls she does not want. She throws a tantrum at seeing her mother has bought her a chocolate birthday cake, to which her mother asks what sort of child she is. Wendy's mother claims she is not her daughter, and attempts to take her life with the knife she had been using to cut the cake.

Switched is a Trylle Trilogy - stories of trolls and human on the same dimension in Earth. Honestly, this book is literally slow-paced. I got bored reading it but I have to move on to the next series so I push myself to finish the book. It was disappointing in my part knowing that I had a very big expectation for this book but I ended up discontended. 

Rating: 3.0