I think it was really the sequels that ruined it for me. I liked the first one well enough, and the love triangle stuff definitely wasn't the point there, but Katniss gradually got less tolerable and more pointless. The whole series kind of jumped the shark for me with the announcement of the second games. From that point on, I just couldn't take the actual plot very seriously at all. And without a plot to distract me, it was just Katniss growing into a useless Mary Sue as she tried to decide between two guys. Between the Mary Sue lead character, the love triangle, the first person present tense, and the only partially formed, slightly nonsensical plot, it just suddenly became fanfiction.
I still really liked that first book, though, and the world that was set up. Even the very start of the rebellion in the first bit of the second book worked for me. But it just went downhill from there very quick.
I guess I still don't see what the point of the sequels was. If you're talking about what war/violence does to a person, that was already covered by the first book. Making the actual war SO MUCH like an absurd version of the games (down to the relatively ridiculous booby traps and such, which made enough sense for their entertainment value in the games, but less for combat or defense) just made those elements of the story that much more ridiculous and pointless.
I had been totally intrigued by the beginning of the second book, and was quite curious to see how the rebellion could play out, but ultimately felt it was pretty sloppy. I just couldn't buy into it. It felt like the first book was a nice and relatively solid work, and the rest of it just took the story and stretched it as far as it would go, kind of cheapening the original story and characters in the process. It was bad Hollywood sequels in book form, essentially.
Ooooh... reviews for that one look good! And I've liked all the german fantasy I've encountered so far, so I think that might have to get purchased. :D
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And without a plot to distract me, it was just Katniss growing into a useless Mary Sue as she tried to decide between two guys. Between the Mary Sue lead character, the love triangle, the first person present tense, and the only partially formed, slightly nonsensical plot, it just suddenly became fanfiction.
I still really liked that first book, though, and the world that was set up. Even the very start of the rebellion in the first bit of the second book worked for me. But it just went downhill from there very quick.
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I had been totally intrigued by the beginning of the second book, and was quite curious to see how the rebellion could play out, but ultimately felt it was pretty sloppy. I just couldn't buy into it. It felt like the first book was a nice and relatively solid work, and the rest of it just took the story and stretched it as far as it would go, kind of cheapening the original story and characters in the process. It was bad Hollywood sequels in book form, essentially.
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It was just kind of great to read something I hadn't read before. I'd forgotten what it was like to just devour a new book!
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