Good. Quite a bit of action, but left as all setup for a series.

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2012)

Thought it was good. My kids (boys 9 and 10) enjoyed it as well. Action kept it moving along but in the end it felt like it was all setup for a series. Lots of focus on the main character and it did well enough to explain her background in the mining district 12. She's a very like-able character, but really the only one that gets any development of any sort. The action itself isn't overly gory, although it does take a level of understanding from the kids that children are going to die. I did not think they did enough to explain *what* was evil to warrant killing children in the plot. In the end, the plot is about survival and the kids got that. I left myself wishing we could just see the next two chapters at the same time so that there was some sort of conclusion.