KICKASS WOMEN IN LITERATURE: [4/20] KATNISS EVERDEEN, The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. 

“You do not forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

This sixteen-year-old heroine is hard as nails. And hard to like. She’s tough, hostile, calculating. When Katniss volunteers for the games in place of her sister, she knows nice people don’t win. But she doesn’t care about nice; she’d rather be brutal, and survive. But this isn’t just a love story; it’s a harrowing, sophisticated political thriller. So Collins gives her heroine something new: Katniss doesn’t melt because of love. She melts because she sees injustice and it burns away at her until she decides to risk everything to bring down the system. And she does — and this is the best bit — not by fighting but by acting and speak from the heart.Best of all, when Katniss eventually sheds her armour, she learns that there is more, much more, to love than entrails and an absence of hissing.(x)