**spoiler alert** So, it's been a while since i read Catching Fire. Almost 9 months, which makes it kinda hard to get back to the story with same eage**spoiler alert** So, it's been a while since i read Catching Fire. Almost 9 months, which makes it kinda hard to get back to the story with same eager that i had before. When i finished Catching Fire, i was all set up, and it was killing me, that i had to wait for at least a couple of months before reading Mockingjay.
So, it started out okay. I was all feed up for the adventures to begin, and i got though the first hundred pages very quick. But when the story's development was rising, it was harder and harder to finish the book. I was so sad! I couldn't read a single line without suffering under Katniss feelings. I guess that's what makes a book very well written, and i agree, but Suzanne Collins made the book so awfully sad. It was really hard to love this book when it made me so sad.
Katniss started out very sad and depressed. It pissed me off, but hey, give her a break, she just lost her entire homedistrict. I really missed the old girl i fell in love with from the first book, but it's not until chapter 4 we meet her again, though not with the same power that we saw from the first book. With time she gets more and more depressed, and that pisses me off. It's just boring. She's all "Oh i killed him, i'm a monster" when all she did was breathing. A smart person said "I have the same complaint in this book that I did in Catching Fire -- that Katniss was really angsty instead of being the brave, butt-kicking heroine of the first book. Katniss is still a great character in this story, but once again, it seems like she mostly thinks and broods about things, without doing anything to help or change her situation until the very end of the book." And i couldn't agree more. i miss the old butt-kicking heroine from the first two books, not this angsty self-reproachful girl.
Like a bunch of other well written books, it takes some time for the book to start for real. With 'for real, i mean, when the excitement starts to make your heart beat fast and you can't help it but keep reading. And Mockingjay is a very well written book except for one teeny-tiny little thing: the tell pace. The first hundred pages is about three days in District 13. There were so many details i almost got lost, while in the ending ten months just passed by when she was in prison, and we got almost zero details. That's not good, Collins. We like details in the right places, on the right time. I'm sure i don't speak alone, when i say that we want more passion.
But all that didn't matter if the ending had been brilliant. The previous books put up with a bang of an ending, but instead it was a distasteful solution where Katniss was unconscious half the time. Seriuosly? I was all into the "infiltrate Snow's place and kill him"-thing, but they didn't even got that far. ARG! That drives me crazy. Eight of her friends died so she could reach Snow's place and kill him. That was what they died for! Why let them dye for nothing? All that suffering, and then the war is suddenly over? ARG! In the ending when Katniss is set up for a trial for killing Coin, ten months just pass by without hearing anything from the world outside Katniss head. Suddenly, ten months later, Haymitch is taking her out of her prison, TELLLING her how the trial went. Then she's off with him to District 12 again, we're she meets Peeta and we are TOLD how they try to make a live together again. Do you get the point? There's a lot of telling in the story. I don't wanna be told anything, i wanna read it myself. What happened to Peeta, is he back to normal or is he still struggling with something? Hello, I still have questions.
I'm sure Collins is a good author. She writes very well. Even the story is amazing, but apparently, she gets tied of her books before the readers and then she ruins the endings. It's a like a tower she build in the previous two books, and then suddenly starts to demolish in the third book. That drives me crazy.
...ONE EXTRA THING!
Have you heard of this nice young man? He has made great reviews of both the Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games Trilogy.
He has made a great review of this book (Mockingjay)which is way more satisfying than my review, so i really think you should check it out.
Also, if you, like me, is not pleased with the ending of Mockingjay, this fine man wrote an alternative ending, which i think is way more justified to this very good series.
I think the book is very sweet. I cried at the ending, because of the brave but naive boy. I really like Bruno, but some places in the book i think heI think the book is very sweet. I cried at the ending, because of the brave but naive boy. I really like Bruno, but some places in the book i think he's just plain stupid. When he's arguing with Shamuel sometimes, Bruno doesn't listen to the things he says, and that makes me irritated. But i love the way he pronounce things, like "Auzswitch" becomes "Out-With" and stuff like that. And i really want everybody to read it, nomatter age or gender. This is a book you just have to read sometime in your life....more
It shouldn't have taken me this long to resume this series but it took me 4 years to accept that sometimes a book doesn't end the way I want it too. SIt shouldn't have taken me this long to resume this series but it took me 4 years to accept that sometimes a book doesn't end the way I want it too. Still, this book was a blast!...more
**spoiler alert** This book is marvallous. But i wasn't expecting anything else. I totally love this series.
I loved Rose through the entire book. She**spoiler alert** This book is marvallous. But i wasn't expecting anything else. I totally love this series.
I loved Rose through the entire book. She's just so amazing. I have absolutely no words for her!
I knew that Dimitri was going to be a Strigoi, so when i reached page 390 i knew that some time soon he would turn into one. I hate Richelle Mead for making him a Strigoi, but i also admire her for it, because i think that helps Rose to develop herself.
This is fantastic! John Green is my favorite author of all time! He does something to his readers, something strange and enchanting.
IOh. My. Godness.
This is fantastic! John Green is my favorite author of all time! He does something to his readers, something strange and enchanting.
I loved Pludge from the beginning, including Alaska and all their crazy friends. There's really not much to say about this book, rather than you should read it.
This author manages to get under the skin of his readers. It gave me goosebumps. It really did! I loved it all the way from page one, and the second part (the 'after' part) was so sad i was about to cry....more
Well, the book was quite predictable. But i guess i was captured by the front, like everybody else. It's a damn good frontpage.
But i was really disapWell, the book was quite predictable. But i guess i was captured by the front, like everybody else. It's a damn good frontpage.
But i was really disappointed when i started to read the book. The plot makes no sense and the characters annoy me. I was frustrated half of the book, and when i was finished, i looked like this.
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Let's start with Lucinda, or Luce: I didn't get her. I think i read four pages and then suddenly didn't like her. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that she didn't show no sign of sadness or regret for killing/not-killing her boyfriend Trevor. I mean, i wasn't expecting her to be devastated, but she acted like it was no big deal. And the fact that she was in love with Daniel from the first time she saw him. Really, she was about to take a bullet for him, if necessary, the first time she saw him. And all that stuff about remembering-him-from-another-time-thing was so untrustworthy, i simply skipped the pages every time i heard about it.
Cam and Daniel? Oh i really don't wanna start on those two.
But the thing that annoyed me most, was at the ending of the book when Luce is about find out what she is. She asked Daniel what she really was, and he told her WHAT?!
"I'm sorry Luce, but we can't tell you because every time we tried pass the last many centuries, you've died. So that is why we're feeding you with fragments of information, which don't really makes sense, so you won't pass out in my arms".
And Luce was like "Oh okay. i guess that's alright". And then lives goes on...
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