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I bought this series for my 8 year old who loves to read. I loved the Hunger Games and was very excited to see that Suzanne Collins had written a series for kids as well. After my 8 year old talked my ear off after reading the first book, I decided to read them as well. Wow! That's the best word I can use for this series. It was so well written and full of adventure, I couldn't put them down. My son wishes there were movies to go with them (he loves to watch movies of books he has read to see if they are as good as the book). The best thing my son said after he was done the last was "can we write to Suzanne Collins and ask her to write more books about Gregor? I'm just not ready to say goodbye to this series". He has read many other books (he loves series) but this is by far his favorite. He recommends it to everyone at school and just bought the set for his 10 year old cousin for his birthday.


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Suzanne Collins The Underland Chronicles 5 Books Set 15 Gregor The Overlander Suzanne Collins 0005451668106 Books Reviews

On my fourth read of this series, and it always surprises me how much I still enjoy reading it. I can still remember scouring my middle school library for a good fantasy book and choosing this series at random, and then getting home from school and shutting myself up in my room for hours on end reading away which is actually kind of uncharacteristic of me. My first read through was so rapid, I barely retained any of the story which I appreciated later on and have continued to read this series as fast as I could so I can get the most out of it and so the plot twists will still catch me off guard. I'd have to say my only gripe about this series is the ending, and I had to take off one star because of it. Don't let this discourage you from reading it though, it's just such a good series that you'll hate to see it come to an end.
I'm 34 years old and love adventure books. I do believe I must be a kid at heart...guilty as charged! Aside from the writing being meant for young adults I still thought this series was amazing. I read the first book in 2 days. I was lead to read Gregor due to having read The Hunger Games and enjoyed them immensely. I wanted to see what other books Suzanne Collins had out there and found out that she had Gregor the Overlander series. I bought it expecting not much and found out I enjoyed it.

I will buy the Gregor series for my niece who is 9 years old and want to divert her away from the Goose Bumps series. I want to have her explore her mind about mythical lands and creatures and actions packed adventures.

I hope I'm a good Aunt )
I can't praise these books enough! This is probably my favorite series that in highschool. However, my issue is with the seller saying that this is a box set with wonderful artwork. THERE IS NO BOX, and the artwork is nothing like the books I had in highschool, which is the books displayed in the items picture. If you haven't read the series, I recommend you buy it cheaply through this seller, it is an excellent read even for adults as it is even more violent than The Hunger Games. If you are trying to buy the books as collectable or memento look else where as these are not the version of the books you want.
This series is a roller coaster ride and a half.

You will laugh, be stumped, aww over cuteness, be proud, and have your heart ripped from your ribcage. There's so much I want to say about this whole series but it often literally leaves me speechless. Every detail of the Underland is so well executed and thorough. Every chapter ends with a twist or cliffhanger that requires you to turn the next page and keep reading. It's a long-time favorite series of mine.

I don't think words can do it justice. Yes, that sounds pretentious and cheesy but just read the damn books. Do it.

Although this book is narrated by an 11-year-old, I would recommend the series for 13+. It does deal with serious topics and multiple traumatic, harrowing events.
Caution spoilers ahead.

I imagine that many adult readers of the Underland Chronicles are like me, and came across these books after reading the Hunger Games trilogy and looking for more works by Suzanne Collins. I admit, I started to read Gregor the Overlander and was a little skeptical short, simple sentences targeted for a little bit younger reading audience, talking animals, somewhat formulaic quests based on prophecies seemingly taken for granted. I enjoyed the first few books, but for me it was toward the end of the third book where I felt like Collins really hit her stride and told a tale in the second half of the series that I would say can stand toe-to-toe with the more heralded Hunger Games trilogy. In some ways, the unadorned sentences and the younger protagonists magnify the horror and tragedy of the tale; to be honest, this series packs one emotional gut-punch after another, even for an adult reader like myself ... I would think that for many children it could be a little too intense.

As an adult reader, however, I was impressed by the storytelling, the characters, and the ability to create a world at once magical and yet also brutal, grim, and frighteningly like our own. So many moments in this series stand out, but for me the last two books were truly mesmerizing. I think about the juxtaposition in the 4th book between the birthday party, which is one of the few (and last) moments of childish fun and innocence in the series, to be replaced shortly by the terror, helplessness, and true moral anguish represented by the genocide of the mice at the hands of the rats (in many ways, that had to be one of the darkest and most hopeless points in the series). I think about the moment when Gregor lies dying in a lightless cave alone but for the mutilated corpses of his friend and of his mortal enemy ... and his thoughts are consumed by the belief that this end is most fitting, that death is preferable to life for a damaged warrior, lost between worlds. At the same time, this is a series full of hope, even in its darkest moments.

The genius of the Underland Chronicles (similar to the Hunger Games trilogy which would follow them) is two-fold first, Collins weaves a tale of unrelenting action and adventure and yet does not allow the reader to simply enjoy and revel in the action simply for the sake of action--there are no winners or losers in Collins' wars ... only victims. This leads to the second key point unlike many other tales, where wounds miraculously heal and traumas are forgotten, in Collins' world wounds cut deep, scars remain, and the depth of the physical violence is topped only by the mental and emotional trauma. The Underland Chronicles are about war, and the hope against hope that people will reject war even though the more natural inclination is to embrace it. In Collins' capable hands, Gregor is a delightful, nuanced, and complex protagonist a reluctant warrior who sees himself in his enemies, is quick to see the virtues in others and the flaws in himself, and grasps the true horror of his task--and yet continues on, even if it destroys him.

Any critiques I have of the series are relatively mild. Perhaps my most nagging thought is that I wish Collins had spent more time on Gregor's decision to leave the Underland ... that he leaves is not surprising, but that he leaves it seemingly forever is somewhat more so. Gregor cannot forsake the Overland without abandoning his family, and as he himself notes, the existence of a warrior in a time of peace makes that peace all the more tenuous. At the same time, if he leaves the Underland, he also leaves behind a woman who loves him (it's hard to call Luxa a "girl" anymore; I still find the words, "Look at my city, Gregor. Look at my home" to be among the most haunting in the series), and a friend in Ripred who understands his fears and his dreams more than anyone else possibly could in either world. Obviously, the emotional impact of the ending diminishes greatly if Gregor leaves the Underland with "ok, see you all next Saturday!" as his parting words ... at the same time, it seems like he still has the potential to do good in the Underland--and the Underland has the potential to ease some of Gregor's deeper emotional scars. Yet Collins, who chooses her words extremely carefully, adds no qualifier to the last words of the penultimate chapter "parting them forever".

Less major concerns I was glad that skepticism toward the prophecies finally emerged toward the end of the series, but it could've been interesting if this tension between fate and free will had emerged a bit earlier in the series. Also, given the constant state of warfare, it was surprising that the humans never seemed to develop projectile weapons given the aerial superiority provided by bats ... put another way, the rats would have no answer for Katniss on a bat!

In the end, however, what an incredible series. To me, although written in a way that a younger audience can understand, this is an extremely "adult" tale in its themes and message. Like Gregor, the reader must leave the Underland ... but to paraphrase Gregor, we will never get rid of it, no matter how hard we try.
I bought this series for my 8 year old who loves to read. I loved the Hunger Games and was very excited to see that Suzanne Collins had written a series for kids as well. After my 8 year old talked my ear off after reading the first book, I decided to read them as well. Wow! That's the best word I can use for this series. It was so well written and full of adventure, I couldn't put them down. My son wishes there were movies to go with them (he loves to watch movies of books he has read to see if they are as good as the book). The best thing my son said after he was done the last was "can we write to Suzanne Collins and ask her to write more books about Gregor? I'm just not ready to say goodbye to this series". He has read many other books (he loves series) but this is by far his favorite. He recommends it to everyone at school and just bought the set for his 10 year old cousin for his birthday.