I just finished rereading The Hunger Games books which, omg, I forgot I had so much love for. I particularly enjoyed the culture of District 12 in the first book, the feeling of constant surveillance and dystopia in the second one, and Katniss' fragile mental state in the third. Mocking jay was much better this time around, an although the last ( Read more... )

I just finished the sequel to Unspoken! I managed to slightly ignore all of the things that irritated me in the prequel*, and have kindled a deep and burning hatred for Ash in my soul. Sooooooooooo basically the only characters I came out of it liking were Jared and Kami's family. Because Holly turned out to be a Promiscuous Bisexual (which wasn't ( Read more... )

Found that a) I dislike the protagonist and b) that I'm not actually convinced of the legitimacy of the main source of drama for the book. Both of these things is kind of a problem, but I'm still going to buy the next book because I already ordered it from the bookstore and I like SRB as a person ( Read more... )

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There's this locked lj community that I want to get into like burning because of reasons. it's sort of old ish? like, I'm 2 years late to the party, but it's still kind of active and it's the only place to find that stuff on the internet and i messaged one of the mods in a v pathetic fashion a week or so ago and she hasn't responded but her lj info ( Read more... )

"'You look awfully nice,' said Diana, who having just received a compliment from one of her ocusins, felt that she ought to pass it on. 'You've got the loveliest colour ( Read more... )