Hunger Games
All right then.
I just finished listening to The Hunger Games, and... wow. Just, wow. I don't have the words to describe the power of the story; if anybody hasn't read it, do so now -- but be prepared to get sucked in for twelve hours, more or less continuously, and to not be able to stop thinking about it once you're done.
Miriam has the sequel, Catching Fire, in actual book form, and Mockingjay in audio book again, so I'll probably borrow them both. But I can already tell the romance angle is going to make me spend half of Catching Fire yelling at Katniss (and the boys, I suppose) to STFU and get some perspective.*
Which is actually really ironic, when Katniss spent half of the first book yelling at the audience of the games about that very same thing.
I don't suppose I can skip past book two and get right to Mockingjay, which I've heard nothing but good things about. Or could I?
*And if that's my mindset right now, maybe I won't end up writing for the Peculiar Pairing Ficathon, after all. *Ponders*
I just finished listening to The Hunger Games, and... wow. Just, wow. I don't have the words to describe the power of the story; if anybody hasn't read it, do so now -- but be prepared to get sucked in for twelve hours, more or less continuously, and to not be able to stop thinking about it once you're done.
Miriam has the sequel, Catching Fire, in actual book form, and Mockingjay in audio book again, so I'll probably borrow them both. But I can already tell the romance angle is going to make me spend half of Catching Fire yelling at Katniss (and the boys, I suppose) to STFU and get some perspective.*
Which is actually really ironic, when Katniss spent half of the first book yelling at the audience of the games about that very same thing.
I don't suppose I can skip past book two and get right to Mockingjay, which I've heard nothing but good things about. Or could I?
*And if that's my mindset right now, maybe I won't end up writing for the Peculiar Pairing Ficathon, after all. *Ponders*