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Lesson I should have learned from HP: reading an entire book in one evening: not the best idea. My eyes are sore and my head is spinning and I am guranteed to have weird, Panem-based dreams tonight.
This is not well organized, but well.
Let's pretend I didn't sprint through the bookstore "whooooooooooooo!"-ing once I had procured my copy. Because that would be childish.
The actual tears started flowing when Katniss mentioned Finnick and Annie's son. Oh good god. I don't know why but sob sob sob.
I adore adore adore the ending - not the epilogue, which I still liked a whole lot, but the "You love me. Real or not real?" I am such a sap and a stupid romantic, but I loved that moment for Katniss and Peeta because there was so much weight and history and hurt behind it, even though it also meant joy and love and happiness, always despite that. Gah!
Also: I adore that Peeta still really wanted babies, after everything. Makes me believe he got a little bit back to the sweet Peeta we met in the first book. Poor dear.
I was really . . . I think the word is satisfied by the evolution of Gale and Katniss's relationship. My biggest complaint about Gale has been that I never really felt like I knew anything about him. We saw him through Katniss's eyes, she already knew everything about him, and so we didn't get a lot of explanation or character development for him. That being said, I think in retrospect I knew more than I thought I did. Like Katniss (because of Katniss?), I brushed off his hatred of the Capitol, and his more extreme stance, but no, that was Gale. A good guy, absolutely, but also pushed to his limits in his real life, and willing to take that step and cross that line on a bigger stage. Totally believable and understandable and exactly why Katniss couldn't be with him.
I'm really interested to read what you Katniss/Gale shippers thought about how things fell out, and if you were as convinced and satisfied as I was.n
Also: I am so pleased all three corners of the triangle made it out alive. It's much more satisfying and complicated to know that Katniss had to make a choice (because you know she could have gotten to Gale, or had him come back to her) than to have had her settle for the one who ducked the most bullets.
Peeta and the primrose bushes: stop it, you're making yourself cry again. I would never have pegged Prim to die. Never, because I would have thought that it undermined the entire premise of the book - Katniss, sacrificing for Prim - but somehow it made the whole thing work, because no matter what Katniss did and what her actions provoked, Prim was destined to go, and so she did. (And man, I knew it was bad news the minute Katniss saw the kid human shield.)
And Peeta! Peeta. Man, I have been a Peeta girl since the beginning, and I loves me my characters when they get broken, so I sort of feel like parts of this were pandering directly to my every fiction kink. The brainwashing! Therapy via frosting Art! Forced to join Katniss's unit! The handcuffs he insisted on! The slowly learning to trust the others and his memories! The whole untold story of him and Johanna and Annie in the cells! (OMG THAT JUST OCCURED TO ME AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF IT.)
I also love love love the idea of Finnick spilling all those secrets. And I kind of love the idea of Snow whoring out the victors in an evil genuis sort of way because yes, of course he would, but also Katniss's arranged life with Peeta would have been like a gift, all things considered. Unless Snow wanted to hire them out together. Oh God. Forget I mentioned it. Focus: I think I adore Finnick. And Johanna.
Things I could still want:
1. A date. I mean, clearly the series happens in the future, but the vague hints about no one knowing about Rome, and the desctruction of the atmosphere - could no one have dropped a 3225 in there some where? Sigh.
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wisteria_ mentioned, a map! Mostly because I am wondering if Canada gets swallowed up by the US in the nebulous future.
3. I found myself disconcerted by all the TV production talk, especially at the beginning of the book when they were arranging Katniss's shoot in the District 13 studio Which is funny, I suppose, because the Games were filmed, so the cameras weren't unexpected but still. Oh! I was especially disconcerted when Castor and Pollux had to take off their camera suits to get into the sewar! I was like "why did you not ditch those forever ago?!"
I am really glad I posted my Peeta nightmare fic before reading Mockingjay because I would never have been able to finish it had I not.
This is not well organized, but well.
Let's pretend I didn't sprint through the bookstore "whooooooooooooo!"-ing once I had procured my copy. Because that would be childish.
The actual tears started flowing when Katniss mentioned Finnick and Annie's son. Oh good god. I don't know why but sob sob sob.
I adore adore adore the ending - not the epilogue, which I still liked a whole lot, but the "You love me. Real or not real?" I am such a sap and a stupid romantic, but I loved that moment for Katniss and Peeta because there was so much weight and history and hurt behind it, even though it also meant joy and love and happiness, always despite that. Gah!
Also: I adore that Peeta still really wanted babies, after everything. Makes me believe he got a little bit back to the sweet Peeta we met in the first book. Poor dear.
I was really . . . I think the word is satisfied by the evolution of Gale and Katniss's relationship. My biggest complaint about Gale has been that I never really felt like I knew anything about him. We saw him through Katniss's eyes, she already knew everything about him, and so we didn't get a lot of explanation or character development for him. That being said, I think in retrospect I knew more than I thought I did. Like Katniss (because of Katniss?), I brushed off his hatred of the Capitol, and his more extreme stance, but no, that was Gale. A good guy, absolutely, but also pushed to his limits in his real life, and willing to take that step and cross that line on a bigger stage. Totally believable and understandable and exactly why Katniss couldn't be with him.
I'm really interested to read what you Katniss/Gale shippers thought about how things fell out, and if you were as convinced and satisfied as I was.n
Also: I am so pleased all three corners of the triangle made it out alive. It's much more satisfying and complicated to know that Katniss had to make a choice (because you know she could have gotten to Gale, or had him come back to her) than to have had her settle for the one who ducked the most bullets.
Peeta and the primrose bushes: stop it, you're making yourself cry again. I would never have pegged Prim to die. Never, because I would have thought that it undermined the entire premise of the book - Katniss, sacrificing for Prim - but somehow it made the whole thing work, because no matter what Katniss did and what her actions provoked, Prim was destined to go, and so she did. (And man, I knew it was bad news the minute Katniss saw the kid human shield.)
And Peeta! Peeta. Man, I have been a Peeta girl since the beginning, and I loves me my characters when they get broken, so I sort of feel like parts of this were pandering directly to my every fiction kink. The brainwashing! Therapy via frosting Art! Forced to join Katniss's unit! The handcuffs he insisted on! The slowly learning to trust the others and his memories! The whole untold story of him and Johanna and Annie in the cells! (OMG THAT JUST OCCURED TO ME AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF IT.)
I also love love love the idea of Finnick spilling all those secrets. And I kind of love the idea of Snow whoring out the victors in an evil genuis sort of way because yes, of course he would, but also Katniss's arranged life with Peeta would have been like a gift, all things considered. Unless Snow wanted to hire them out together. Oh God. Forget I mentioned it. Focus: I think I adore Finnick. And Johanna.
Things I could still want:
1. A date. I mean, clearly the series happens in the future, but the vague hints about no one knowing about Rome, and the desctruction of the atmosphere - could no one have dropped a 3225 in there some where? Sigh.
2. Also, as I think
wisteria_ mentioned, a map! Mostly because I am wondering if Canada gets swallowed up by the US in the nebulous future. 3. I found myself disconcerted by all the TV production talk, especially at the beginning of the book when they were arranging Katniss's shoot in the District 13 studio Which is funny, I suppose, because the Games were filmed, so the cameras weren't unexpected but still. Oh! I was especially disconcerted when Castor and Pollux had to take off their camera suits to get into the sewar! I was like "why did you not ditch those forever ago?!"
I am really glad I posted my Peeta nightmare fic before reading Mockingjay because I would never have been able to finish it had I not.
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