My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a good call for my post-Hunger Games withdrawal. While I never felt like life as I know it was going to stop if I didn't find out what happened to these characters and I never once shed a tear, I did really enjoy this book. It was a quick, satisfying read built around a uniquely interesting premise and likable characters.
The similarities to THG are there for sure and I see why the distributors jumped at this and designed the cover the way they did and bought the movie rights. But Roth should be given credit for a wonderfully inventive, intriguing story, a compelling setting and characters you care about.
I'm bummed that I now have to wait for her to finish the second in the series because I'd really like to see where she takes her factionless heroes.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Another Book Read
Friday, August 5, 2011
THG Withdrawal
It is seriously like those lovely ladies at Hello Giggles are inside my brain and then blog on the problems that are facing me. Right now, it's my book withdrawal from The Hunger Games. You laugh, but this is a problem. I am a girl who is never without a book. Since I have finished THG I just couldn't get into anything else. British Historical Fiction seemed too obsolete and medieval...modern chick lit seemed too fluffy and I really just want to love on Peeta again. So I did the MOST insane thing. I re-read the trilogy. Like days after I finished it. I've never done that before. So weird but it kinda helped because I flew through the first ones trying to find out who survives so I was able to let it sink in a bit on the second try. But not too much because I finished them again in less than two weeks. And now here I am back in the same situation. So thank you @katespencer for hopefully helping me MOVE ON with my life. At least until the movie comes out!
What To Read Now That You’ve Finished The Hunger Games
Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
The Hunger Games Trilogy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I finished these books in record time thanks to the long holiday weekend and Collins' amazing pacing. While providing every detail necessary to draw you into Katniss' world, the speed of the events of these three books is breathless. I'm actually finding myself excited for the movies because they would have to try really hard to mess this up. It has everything from larger than life characters, action, worlds exploding, good and evil, cool gadgets and mystery. I am anxious though to see how they play out the core of what this book was to me. Without spoiling anything for anyone who hasn't read it yet, the "love triangle" goes on in a completely new way and it's telling what its process and resolution means to everyone involved.
For me there was only one way this story could end and I'm so glad that's where she took it. By the last chapter I was sobbing hysterically and reading really slowly because I just didn't want to leave these characters. It's so rare that one book comes along that makes you leave your life behind for hours on end and get transported to another place wholeheartedly and become completely invested in a make-believe world. Even more rare that there are three that are equally as compelling.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Hunger Games
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow. It's been a long time since I was so excited about a 374-page book that I read it in about a day and a half. A day when I worked for over 8 hours! I absolutely could not put this book down. And when I did, I still felt like I was there, in Panem, sometime in our sad future. Katniss is the perfect heroine and Collins' telling of the story could not be any more riveting. The world she creates is one of sadness and despair but hope and joyful respect. Her supporting characters are wonderful and any of them could run away with the story. The landscape is described in a way that sucks you in and while it's so alien it is also completely recognizable. The deprivation of District 12 sounds astounding. People are going hungry and The Capitol isn't doing anything? But isn't that exactly what happens here, now? Aren't there spheres of our society that are as ignored, as beaten down?
I'm excited to see where the next two books will go. I felt like I had to fly through this book just to see who survives The Games so I may be able to take the next one a little slower and enjoy the ride a little more. All I know is I'll be heading to Borders as soon as I'm done working...because I'm hooked!
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