I read the second two books of the Hunger Games trilogy (Catching Fire and Mockingkay) last week after reading The Hunger Games during Christmas. I don't know why people didn't like Mockingjay as much as the other two, because I thought the books got noticeably better as they continued and the first one was great to begin with. Mockingjay ended on such a powerful note that even after I finished it, I couldn't stop thinking about it for a couple of days, it was great!
I read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire over Christmas break and LOVED them both. Then school started back up and I didn't have time to read Mockingjay for a few months.
Anyway... I just finished Mockingjay. It was ****ing terrible. Just awful. Not a single redeeming quality. It ruined the whole series for me.
I don't want to spoil any of the main points, but my two biggest problems with it were:
1. If you are going to kill off big, important characters, give them heroic deaths.
2. The most important parts of the whole book happened while Katniss was unconscious! WTF!
3. I. Hated. Peeta. "Kill me, I want to die, Wahhhhh!" STFU you little whiny bitch!
4. The corny, Harry Potter esque epilogue. I didn't like it in HP and I didn't like it in THG.
Next I am going to start Inheritance (the fourth book). I've had it since it came out and just haven't had time to read it.
Over the summer I'm finally gonna read Game Of Thrones.
Most profound book I read (for pleasure) all last year.
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Even among authors, Jeffrey Eugenides possesses a rare talent for being able to inhabit his characters. In The Marriage Plot, his third novel and first in ten years (following the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex), Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described “incurable romantic” who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle is Mitchell, a Religious Studies major from Eugenides’ own Detroit. What follows is a book delivered in sincere and genuine prose, tracing the end of the students’ college days and continuing into those first, tentative steps toward true adulthood. This is a thoughtful and at times disarming novel about life, love, and discovery, set during a time when so much of life seems filled with deep portent.