The Hunger Games

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I did eventually get around to reading them!

I liked them, and quickly became very fond of Katniss. She was tough, and brave, and overall a pretty good heroine for young girls. I could have managed without the love triangle, but there was less of it than I expected, and in the end “Gale or Peeta?” wasn’t the important decision, the decision to kill Coin was. So that was quite nice.

But it did make me so bloody sad that poor Katniss lost almost EVERYTHING. She fought so hard to protect her sister and she ended up dead anyway. Her mother couldn’t help her (I wish they’d been more on the relationship between Katniss and her mother, I find it really interesting), people constantly used her, she lost her home and her best friend…she lost so much, but she survived. I think the epilogue showed that she was healing a bit, maybe? She still has a lot of her life left, so she could easily move around the Districts later on and help rebuild the world. Also: I decided her children were named Prue (Primrose/Rue) and Cinnick (Cinna/Finnick). That may be silly, but I like it. Anyway-

Random stuff: I saw Gale as black before we got a physical description of him, and now even though Liam Hemsworth is playing him I still think of him as black. I confess myself a bit disappointed in that casting. I see Finnick as being black too, but they’re almost certainly going to get someone white to play him…so yeah.

Finnick/Annie is my OTP for this book, I believe. Also, Finnick’s death made me sad because of the sheer pointlessness of it, and the fact that Finnick had so very little happiness in his life. All he had was Annie, and he never even got to meet their child. Wah.

Okay, I’m done…see you at the movie!