The Hunger Games Trilogy
So I just read it and I have OPINIONS.
Also I haven’t made a post in a long time, but who knows maybe this will make up for it.
Anyways, I finished the trilogy today. I finished the second book this morning, and finished the last one around 9 today.
SO GOOD.
It really did remind me of Battle Royale, but I’ve never read the book, only seen the movie. The movie was terrifying as toots. I don’t know how the Hunger Games movie will be, but I am excited to watch it.
Anyways, everyone says the first one is good and the later ones less so, but that’s because the first one is Battle Royale. Everyone loves a gore fest. The second book was kind of a necessary transition into the last book, which is revolution. And I like revolution and rebellion. Not in real life, unless there’s something that needs to be fixed, but they’re always so exciting in books. I doubt I’d say that if I was actually part of a bloody revolution, but from the viewpoint of a comfortable reading chair it seems interesting. Rebellions in video games are also pretty awesome, as well. So perhaps that explains my interest in them.
What I do enjoy about Mockingjay is that important people die. Not all of the important people though, which is always good. Having only the protagonist left who magically pulls the drive to fight from the loss always seems too unrealistic to me in a story. Some deaths I feel didn’t have as big as an effect as I felt they deserved, though.
*SPOILERS*
For example, I would have felt that we should have seen a lot of Katniss’ destroyed mental state for her sister. After all, she did walk into certain death to save her. In addition, I felt Finnick was a very likable and important character, and that his death shouldn’t have been so sudden. He deserved a true hero’s death.
In addition, I don’t like how Katniss ends up with Peeta at the end of the book. It was like Collins flipped a coin and just decided “Okay, Katniss ends up with Peeta.” There was a lot of relationship development for both Katniss/Peeta and Katniss/Gale, and while I also would have been displeased with an open ending, I think I would have preferred that than having her set with one guy. She should be free, like the bird she symbolizes. I think that, even though Gale came up with the idea for the horrible bombs that killed Prim, it wasn’t Gale executing the idea. It was Coin being evil. I believe that Katniss would have been mentally stable enough to recognize that it wasn’t Gale who killed her sister, it was Coin. And, in the end, she did punish Coin, with an arrow to the head.
Though, the assassination of Coin was also a death that was underplayed. I mean, sure Katniss is crazy, but she also just killed the leader of the new… nation? That’s some heavy shit. I don’t think they would have let her go just like that, but I guess she made an impression enough on all the higher ups to let her live.
At the same time, I really like the parallel between Coin and Snow. It was an excellent theme through out the book, both leaders trying to stay in power, both using very objectionable methods.
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tl;dr I read the Hunger Games trilogy and it was good, y’all, but some parts I did not like.
