why am i sitting in the middle of nowhere
So. Yeah. Finished Mockingjay at midnight last night - and by the end of it, I was pretty much a sobbing wreck of a human.
( Do I really need to cut for spoilers? )
( Do I really need to cut for spoilers? )
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Okay so after reading your post and all the comments I might jump back in for another reread. Mockingjay stabbed me through the heart because FINNICK and PRIM and the kids and the bombs and WHY. I knew it was a bleak world from the beginning but sheesh. Lighten up, Collins.
Anyway, thanks for rekindling. And yes, Peeta. But I just need to say I love Gale. I don't know why. Maybe I'll figure it out this reread.
Oh and just one more thing...I am very very happy with the castings. (except maybe Lenny Kravitz? But happy to be proven wrong.)
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What I love about the end of Mockingjay is what she actually writes - that it would have happened anyway. Yeah, we don't get to see it but she infers that they actually get to know each other and fall in love without anyone else's interference and expectation.
That was the best thing the hijacking did - it gave them both an opportunity to be sure of each other. You know that Peeta always would have wondered if she was just with him because he was always there and he had always wanted her. Katniss would have wondered if she actually loved him or if she had been manipulated into it somehow. Whatever else it did, it showed her that she did actually love him. And I LOVE that we don't get any real romantic stuff during the end of the book when they're in the Capital. I mean, her kissing him (Don't let him take you from me) and the shoelace discussion made me cry, but they're not some overwhelming reunion with a kiss and ( ... )
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