This blog is going to be about
Gregor the Ovelander by Suzanne Collins a name you would have known if you were
familiar with the hunger games she is the author of that trilogy and this
series. The series has about five books but I only have read up to the fourth
book and I’m not really sure why I stopped at the fourth book. I think I was
juggling several series at the time and had to stop to focus on other book
series and forgot to finish the last book. This series is not alike with the
Hunger Games it was actually several years that I realize they were by the same
author.
The plot is quite original and
has different themes as the Hunger Games. The story start with the main
character Gregor who follows his little sister, Boots through a gate in their apartment building to
entire new world called the Underland that is beneath the city. In Underland there is an entire culture of humans
that live in the city of Regalia and along with giant bats that are bonded to
every human. Also they can talk along with giant rats who are the bad guys most
of the time and giant cockroaches, snails, moles, scorpions, mice, ants,
snakes, fireflies and spiders. They also don’t call them by those names instead
bats are called fliers, snails as slimers, rats as gnawers, cockroaches as
crawlers and so on and on. After Gregor arrives in the Underland the people of
Regalia view him as the warrior of the prophecy and Boots as the princess that
all the Crawlers worship. In the first book Gregor goes on a quest to rescue to
save his father who is lost in the war between the human Underlanders and the
gnawers.
Even though this book is very
less known as the Hunger Games it is still very good and has qualities that are
similar like warfare. And if you give it a try I'm sure you will like it as
much as the Hunger Games even more so. Because I read more from this series
than the Hunger Games which reminds me that I need to finish the last two books
of the trilogy.
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