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To many reviews already on this book both good and bad. My words will be lost on the masses so I will keep this short. Everyone who writes dreams to have the success that Suzanne Collins has. Millions of books sales, a blockbuster movie quadrilogy. Masses of Young Adults that bow down and worship her as the goddess of epic YA science fiction.
And yet this book like 99% of post apocalypse and dystopia literature comes to me as a massive letdown. I am finding myself nearly always in love with the c ...more
And yet this book like 99% of post apocalypse and dystopia literature comes to me as a massive letdown. I am finding myself nearly always in love with the c ...more
I finished the series!!!! The last book was good in the middle once it got going but was slow in the first and last third. I found it a little slow in the beginning and was hard for me to get into it. I also forgot some of the earlier story lines and characters. But once I got into it the names and plot lines fell back into place. It got a little exciting when they were on the run but it took a while to get there. I don't know what it was but I just didn't get into this book as I did the others.
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What did I think of it? I liked it. Not great dystopian fiction, but it was good. This last book, which my older son (age 11) said was his least favorite, was probably my favorite. It dealt more with the society that demanded a sacrifice from the quelled rebellious "Districts" in the form of their young people to play a game where they hunt and kill each other until only one stands. These tributes are celebrities of a sort for the short time they are in the Capitol before the games begin, and th
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So I've now read Mockingjay, the finale to Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series. What did I think? Well, I don't want to spoil any part of the book for those who haven't read it yet, but I think I'm safe saying this: I feel like the first book in the trilogy was jaw-droppingly fantastic. The concept is so easy to understand and so well executed. Young girl must kill other children in a fight to the death that's broadcast on national television. Oh yeah--and she doesn't want to kill anyone. The t
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Wow! collins wrote the quality novel that Rowlings should have written. A morality tale that kids will believe, because the characters are absolutely real and in a backdrop of the level of violence that our news and intertainment now contains.
Such an intense book. Collins really brings the tributes stories/lives in a full circle. A lot of details on their sacrifice and connections, always for each other.
I found it a bit difficult to read at times just out of the darkness of it, however Collins gave the characters a chance to persevere in this and if you're attached to many of the characters....get ready for a ride!
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I found it a bit difficult to read at times just out of the darkness of it, however Collins gave the characters a chance to persevere in this and if you're attached to many of the characters....get ready for a ride!
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Mar 06, 2011
Josh
marked it as to-read
Hmm.
