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Negative rating if I could. Review long overdue...
Take a typical American sociopathic alpha-male arsehole and chop off the nuts and the wiener, tack on some boobs and "pronto!" there is your currently so much adored "strong female".
Be it Buffy or Katniss or whichever other recently written "strong female" character, they all are alpha-males after a genderswap with but a few token female characteristics. Usually on the surface only, so the reader may discern with what they deal at the given mome ...more
Take a typical American sociopathic alpha-male arsehole and chop off the nuts and the wiener, tack on some boobs and "pronto!" there is your currently so much adored "strong female".
Be it Buffy or Katniss or whichever other recently written "strong female" character, they all are alpha-males after a genderswap with but a few token female characteristics. Usually on the surface only, so the reader may discern with what they deal at the given mome ...more
This was a fun little book - which seems a bit odd as the subject matter is about children being forced into an arena where they must fight each other to the death! But somehow, despite the dark, disturbing subject matter, the book is written in an upbeat way, and almost seems more like a story of a girl navigating the customs, cliques and bullies of a new high school! It's nothing like the experience of reading Lord of the Flies, where the horror of the situation is conveyed very eloquently.
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Apr 16, 2013
Khoragos
marked it as to-read
Jun 14, 2013
Julia
added it
