Comments | beagleinspace: Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

beagleinspace

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

Apr 18, 2012 01:30

I've been aware of The Hunger Games for a while now (and that it's not a post-apocalyptic Twilight like I first thought), but it took this fantastic Gossip Girl/Hunger Games crossover (yes, you read that right) to finally push it from my mental "to read" list to actually reading it ( Read more... )

movies that aren't terrible, cracked out crossovers, book: hunger games series

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aletheia08 July 4 2012, 14:30:15 UTC

Commenting 2.5 months later ;)

I spent the rest of the series bracing myself for someone to say, "Surprise! You're half-siblings!"
OH MY GOD. It didn't even occur to me that it was a possibility! *shivers retrospectively*

As his story was one giant angst fest with some amputation and brainwashing thrown in for good measure, it seemed like the logical tragic ending.
I expected a tragic ending but not the one we got! I thought at some point that Peeta wouldn't make it as well, but I never thought Prim wouldn't. And FINNICK :(( I had to put down the books for 20 minutes when he died because I was so in shock.

I saw the first movie before reading the books so I couldn't really compare the two. I would have to see it again, now I've read the book.

beagleinspace July 4 2012, 19:57:29 UTC

I think maybe I read too much badfic or something. I really was convinced Suzanne Collin's solution to the love triangle would be either be "Guess what? They're related!" or "Surprise! Peeta dies!" (Or an open ended non-ending.)

I expected a tragic ending but not the one we got!

I know! It's been a while since I've been surprised by how something ends. While it broke my fannish heart, I still loved it. But Prim and Finnick D: Both times, I had to stop and go back and reread it because I was all, "Wait, no. I must have read that wrong..."