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So I just finished reading Mockingjay about five minutes ago. I know I'm a little late on this one, but I had to get the books back from a friend and then reread them.
I didn't really enjoy this one all that much. It didn't have the same feel to me. Maybe it's a result of it not having the same 'Hunger Games' structure, but it felt rather aimless. I found myself skimming a lot of the actiony on-our-way to the Capitol stuff.
I felt like Finnick deserved a better death. He was just gone and there wasn't time to grieve for him.
I didn't even feel Prim's death until Buttercup came back and then I wanted to bawl. But I think that's more my empathy with animals thing than the actual death.
By the end of the book I was hating pretty much all of the characters, especially Katniss. I even hated Peeta, because despite not wanting him to end up with Katniss, I still kinda loved him.
And Katniss ending up with Peeta? I never felt it. I got that they became friends, but romantic love on Katniss's part? I always felt like their relationship was her relying on him because she needed someone and he was there and he wasn't going to turn her away because he loved her. To be honest, it seemed like she was always just using him. I always thought that the relationship between her and Gale was more balanced, and had a better give and take to it.
Maybe a good part of my feeling let-down by the book is that she ended up with Peeta, because for long moments reading it, it felt like I was only reading to see who she'd end up with.
I didn't really enjoy this one all that much. It didn't have the same feel to me. Maybe it's a result of it not having the same 'Hunger Games' structure, but it felt rather aimless. I found myself skimming a lot of the actiony on-our-way to the Capitol stuff.
I felt like Finnick deserved a better death. He was just gone and there wasn't time to grieve for him.
I didn't even feel Prim's death until Buttercup came back and then I wanted to bawl. But I think that's more my empathy with animals thing than the actual death.
By the end of the book I was hating pretty much all of the characters, especially Katniss. I even hated Peeta, because despite not wanting him to end up with Katniss, I still kinda loved him.
And Katniss ending up with Peeta? I never felt it. I got that they became friends, but romantic love on Katniss's part? I always felt like their relationship was her relying on him because she needed someone and he was there and he wasn't going to turn her away because he loved her. To be honest, it seemed like she was always just using him. I always thought that the relationship between her and Gale was more balanced, and had a better give and take to it.
Maybe a good part of my feeling let-down by the book is that she ended up with Peeta, because for long moments reading it, it felt like I was only reading to see who she'd end up with.