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Yay! I just started so I can finally join in the convo here. I'm just a few pages in thus far... but here are my first impressions ... I like the first person present tense that it's written in. It makes it feel like she's telling me what's going on as it happens. It's refreshing. However I am having trouble connecting with the drown the kitten, kill the friendly lynx mc here. I truly get how this speaks to the desperation of the setting, but it's unsettling to me.
Hey Danielle, I just started last night too. It is riveting I am 10% in, talk about reality television! Yikes! Catniss is awesome!
So. You guys were able to put it down....better than me :)
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Just go with it hun soon you won't be able to stop lol!
Anagha wrote: "Danielle wrote: "Yay! I just started so I can finally join in the convo here. I'm just a few pages in thus far... but here are my first impressions ... I like the first person present tense that ..."I put it down because it was midnight. Will read more when the noise makers are asleep!
Heidi wrote: "Hey Danielle, I just started last night too. It is riveting I am 10% in, talk about reality television! Yikes! Catniss is awesome!"IKR? Wait till you meet Cinna,, he is the best.
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IKR? Wait till you meet Cinna,, he is the best."
Aah yes he's so sweet and brave <3
I am 30% in...waiting for the action but dreading! Dang it she is making me care too much about the characters. I don't want to get mynheart torn out.
Heidi wrote: "I am 30% in...waiting for the action but dreading! Dang it she is making me care too much about the characters. I don't want to get mynheart torn out."you will! The weird thing is the only character I couldn't care at all was Catniss, but I loved everyone else, and the books!
This is one of thoses books I could not put down so everywhere I went and got any extra down time my nose was in the book. Loved It!
I read this book in one day! I loved it and I loved Catniss. She is so easy to become involved with and care about. The writing was fantastic and so easy to read and be drawn into. I will be writing my review very soon.
I am sensing a real love triangle in the second book though and I am not sure how I feel about that. I hate it because someone always gets hurt and when you care about all three of the people it makes it hard to read. lol.
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you will! The weird thing is t..."
Now you're tearing my heart out! Don't care for Katniss?! What??
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I know! I know! It was heart-wrenching to see one and then the other have his heart pretty much broken. I will say this, I am NOT happy with Katniss' decision (about who she marries)
Hey all,I just read this book a couple of weeks ago. I still have to read the second and third though. :)
I hope I can also participate in upcoming reads.
Agree! Agree! Getting so sick of triangles...wish I could stop reading them all together. This series had so much tension, plot threads, can only ask...why????
Hi Celine you are welcome to join the gang, we are also reading Soul Screamers!
i bought these books when i went to london (<3) since everyone was talking about them.i read them back to back in 3 days so they where more like one book for me haha.honestly i couldnt explain how i felt about it.i emediatly just said i lvoe it..but i couldnt think.i honestly don't think i have ever been so emotionaly scarred xD
it was rilliant but so overflowing with deaths.i won't spoil anything for those who havn't read it but it is brilliant and one of my fav books.
but i do agree about the last book i still loved it but it was heartwrenching and i don't like how it ended :/
btw.sorry guys i don't review ever i just read so it might be a really boring comment :))
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honestly i couldnt explain ..."
Not at all! I can't say I was emotionally scarred (I read a lot of much weirder stuff) but I read the first two in three days so I know you feel. Definitely one of my top 5 all time.
I am loving it, just having a hard time getting through because I have all these books that are on a deadline. I am 30% just waiting for the shoe to drop and the killing to start and I keep thinking don't make me like that 12 yr old she is going to get killed. Ahh want the action to start but I don't...
thanks Anagha :) haha yes i also have read wierder but i had truly fallen for these characters and they don't all last too long ;) exaclty its very overwelming! and one of my all time favorite books (also up there clockwork prince city of bones and twilight)Hiedi i know!she times everything perfectly i nthat book and nothing is too dragging but at the same time its not fast paced at all and very i detail so your taking in everything and anticipating :))
Anagha wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Heidi wrote: "I am 30% in...waiting for the action but dreading! Dang it she is making me care too much about the characters. I don't want to get mynheart torn out."you will! The..."
I don't know why... :P I just never really liked her! :P
I agree with you Kat. It's a very overwelming book. Both emotionally and with all it's action. The author blended those two togwther perfectly.
Cambria wrote: "I am sensing a real love triangle in the second book though and I am not sure how I feel about that. I hate it because someone always gets hurt and when you care about all three of the people it ma..."Wait till you get to the end of this book,,that's all I'm saying,, *-*
Heidi wrote: "I am loving it, just having a hard time getting through because I have all these books that are on a deadline. I am 30% just waiting for the shoe to drop and the killing to start and I keep thinkin..."The action,, the brtutal stuff,, yeah,, good times,, good times,,,
Celine wrote: "Hey all,I just read this book a couple of weeks ago. I still have to read the second and third though. :)
I hope I can also participate in upcoming reads."
Of courseeee,,, the more the marryer :)
Veronica wrote: "I agree with you Kat. It's a very overwelming book. Both emotionally and with all it's action. The author blended those two togwther perfectly."IKR? LUV this author
Elisandra wrote: "Cambria wrote: "I am sensing a real love triangle in the second book though and I am not sure how I feel about that. I hate it because someone always gets hurt and when you care about all three of ..."haha i loved your comment ! i can't wait for everyone to have finished the third to explain to someone exactly how i felt about it.nobody here in Malta read it that i know :))
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I know how that is. But I really hope you take your time with this book. Sometimes, when I start to get freaked out about deadlines, it kind of detracts from the actual story. Definitely don't want that to happen with this.
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I recently read City of Bones! I totally loved it!
Ana, Read the Mortal Instruments it is great. I just got approved for Partials can't wait. Kat I am glad you found us. It will be nice for you to have an outlet to chat about books!I am reading this wacked out book right now called New Girl. Talk about skanky!
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I am reading th..."
I just got approved for Partials too! Thank you for the recommendation!
It looks awesome doesn't it?
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Yess! I'm very excited to get to it! Dystopian is the best!
Heidi wrote: "Ana, Read the Mortal Instruments it is great. I just got approved for Partials can't wait. Kat I am glad you found us. It will be nice for you to have an outlet to chat about books!I am reading th..."
Is New Girl really that skanky? All the reviews I am reading are so mixed and I have it waiting for me to read...
Yes Veronica New Girl 's Becca is a skank she loses her virginity the first night she goes to school to a guy she doesn't even know and now she is playing a manipulative game using sex to get a guy.,Honestly this book is for mature YA only, really should be an adult book. Lots of sex and alcohol, but so far I am enjoying it, waiting to see the twists.
Just finished HG. Having very mixed emotions about the book. Loved it. Dislike it. ...hmmm... cried a bunch. Overall it was an amazing story. Very intense, full of hold-your-breath moments. Just so dark though. I realize dystopian tends to lean that way, but there was just so little hope in this book. I expected more from the ending, especially in regards to hope.
Danielle wrote: "Just finished HG. Having very mixed emotions about the book. Loved it. Dislike it. ...hmmm... cried a bunch. Overall it was an amazing story. Very intense, full of hold-your-breath moments. J..."I know what you mean about hope...even in the most depressing ending I love that there is always hope...but not in these books.
well I am glad to not be the only one that thinks its an emotional book. It was very powerful and a great read but I am slightly scared to read the next too, lol.
Heidi wrote: "Hi Celine you are welcome to join the gang, we are also reading Soul Screamers!"Hey Heidi, thanks I will try and read it after my list of to-reads already, hehe. Plus, I will have to read the first one first, before My Soul to Save as listed. :)
Elisandra wrote: "Celine wrote: "Hey all,I just read this book a couple of weeks ago. I still have to read the second and third though. :)
I hope I can also participate in upcoming reads."
Of courseeee,,, the ..."
Great. :)
I hear ya Celine. I am still going to try and squeeze Soul Screamers 2 in before the end of the month.
Finished it over the weekend and just posted my review. All in all I thought Ms. Collins did a good job with the story, I enjoyed it. I have to agree with some of the others though, in that I really didn't care for Katniss as much as some of the other characters. I thought she was shallow and not as well developed as some of the others and a fool at the end of the book.
I'll be writing my review today and starting on Soul Screamers 2. Glad to be reading with you all.:)
Danielle
I saw the movie trailer yesterday when I was about to watch other movie. I need to speed up the reading. So far sogood, i'm hooked!
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Hey guys we're nearing the end of the month! Got any nominations for Feb? We could do Catching Fire since a lot of us read Hunger Games. An indie choice might be Swirls by FA Hershey. It's on a blog tour right now so that might be fun (:
Hey all! i posted my review for Hunger Games on my blog today. http://www.cambriahebert.comAs for next months read... I don't know! There are too many books to pick from! lol. An indie book would be cool. So would catching fire.
I've always wanted to read this book:
Anagha wrote: "Posted this on a different discussion by accident so I'll paste here:Hey guys we're nearing the end of the month! Got any nominations for Feb? We could do Catching Fire since a lot of us read Hun..."
I am in for both Catching Fire and Swirls since I've read them both and would love to discuss about them! :)
I agree, I would love to read
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thanks i'll consider that, but at the moment I've been reading Sparks' novel so i may not read Hunger Games for a while... i have a site for ebooks and at the moment that's where i'm clinging for books that i couldn't find on the bookstore. :)