Reviews

[sagacious_c]

I’ve been almost totally offline for a few days because I spent the weekend devouring Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy.  (Thank goodness I did this on a weekend - and double extra thank goodness I waited to read them until all 3 books were available - I think I’d have gone crazy otherwise.)  Background for anyone unfamiliar: They’re YA novels

Comments

[themadpoker]

Wow, reading all three books in a row must've been brutal. I had a year in between each, I went crazy waiting but it also gave me enough time to get over things beforehand. I feel like I'm the only one who was okay about Cinna being confirmed dead in Mickingjay? Mostly because I was sure he was dead after Catching Fire and I had plenty of time to mourn.

[sagacious_c]

In my blur of reading the books back to back (embarrassingly so: I finished book 1 at 3 am and immediately opened up book 2), I missed that that was unresolved! I could see people being upset about that -- (trying to write cryptically since I don't know how to do that blackout thing!) since the set-up did seem to imply a grander plan on that issue... :(

[themadpoker]

This is the code! <*span style="color: #333333;background-color: #333333">Spoilers here.<*/span*> Just remove the asterisks. =D

The worst ones for me were Finnick and Prim. Especially with how all Finnick got was a line? It was like Remus in Harry Potter: the sequel. Except I never loved Remus as much as I did Finnick. ;_;

[sagacious_c]

I'm going to try it!

I KNOW, Finnick! And Prim! Wah! It was all so rushed, and Katniss was out of commission for so long that we, the readers, never got the chance to mourn Finnick adequately. I know Suzanne Collins sticks rigidly to her 27 chapters in 3 parts rule, but maybe a little more flexibility was needed. I mean, the denouement for a trilogy is going to take more than just a single book...

[themadpoker]

You know, I actually never noticed she was keeping to a nine-chapter three parts format until I saw other people commenting about it later in reviews? But I do think that explains why she rushed the ending so much. I agree, it would have been a better choice to just let the structure go at that point. I kind of dealt with all the deaths by diving headfirst into the Hunger Games fandom after. Healing through fanfiction, it works! =D

Also happy birthday! =D