Zoe McGuire (aged 11)While holidaying in Kinsale this year I found lots of time to read as the weather was so appalling. Before I left Dublin I had started to read the series The Hunger Games and I could barely put the book down. My older sister read the series in 2008, when it was first published, and she loved it. It's more popular now though, because the new movie based on the first book was recently released in cinemas.

The story is based in a post-apocalyptic future where a brutal reality-TV show called the Hunger Games takes place, the aim of which is to kill or be killed. The games are held every year and one girl and one boy from each of 12 districts are forced to appear.

Back in Kinsale the fog was so thick you could barely see your own feet if you went outside, which made the book feel more real than ever. The two main characters were huddled together in a cave, and I felt as if I was there too, watching them, sheltering from the weather. I always think that the sign of a good book is when you feel like you’re there with them, living through their fear and their loss and gain.

– as told to Sara Keating

Zoe McGuire is a pupil at Mount Anville Montessori Junior School in Dublin