I Am Finished

SPOILER ALERT:  I am finished the Hunger Games series. 

I don't even know what to say.  I was sooooo not happy with the way the series ended.  Honestly, I was so not happy with the last third of the last book.

Don't get me wrong - I thought the writing was great; I am not a person who is going to abuse the writer if I don't like the story.  I just realized too late that this was not what I wanted out of a series.  I don't really know what happened toward the end.  The story ran amok...the rebels ran amok...and Katniss?  Lordddddd...don't get me started on her.  I didn't like her at ALL in book 3.  I don't know what she wanted...I don't know what she was all about...I don't know who she cared about (besides HERSELF).  I just know she threw a pity party for herself throughout the entire third book and had the worst attitude on the planet.  I have NO clue why Peeta still wanted her at the end.  You know - those last, rushed, 2 pages that wrapped up the entire series?  I mean...What the HELL?!  It was just pages and pages of chaos...only to end very quickly.  I felt like the author didn't really know what to do with her.

Gale indirectly killed Prim?  HUH?!?  And honestly - we barely saw Katniss spend more than 2 minutes with her...so it made little sense that she freaked out so badly when she died...except for the fact that maybe she was really freaking out because of everything she had been through.  And she gave up on killing Snow pretty easily...but I guess Prim's death cancelled out her desire to off Snow.  But again - why?  I mean - right - they're sisters.  But I would have thought she'd have been much more upset about Gale or Peeta since THEY are the ones she ate, slept and breathed with for so long.  Yet when Gale was taken, what did she do?  SHE LEFT HIM THERE...WITH THE PEACEKEEPERS!!!!!  I was absolutely in shock when she just went "oh well - bummer, he wanted me to kill him" and went on her merry way!  I was like "Are you KIDDING ME?!?"  Katniss was just WAYYYY too selfish for my liking.  So that sortof did me in 2/3rds of the way through the book.

And then there's Peeta.  Lordddddddd Peeta.  I couldn't even enjoy the fact that they ended up together because she didn't even care!  And if she did..well...we never saw it. All we saw was "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME" and then all the sudden they had kids.  WTF?????

I am not bummed I read the series.  I enjoyed the series.  I just felt like things should have built from book 2 and instead were totally broken down and demolished...which made Katniss and Peeta's life together at the end seem small and insignificant.

Ya know...I feel like we went through SO MUCH BULLSHIT through all those pods and safe houses and cans of stew...and MURDERS left and right!  So why - oh why - were we made to feel so SHITTY at the end of the series?!?

Are you sensing my complete bewilderment at this story?  I don't even know what else to say.  LORDDDDDDD I need a chat with "the girls".

PS - I get it.  She was through SO much.  No one could withstand all of that misery and not break.  Or crack.  And lose their shit.  I know.  But come ON.  Everyone else showed their feelings; why couldn't Katniss???  Why did she have to be such a non-feeling ROBOT?!?  My god - the way she treated Peeta was beyond unacceptable!  And to leave Gale?!?  And every time she got hurt and found herself recuperating in a bed somewhere, she never gave a SHIT about anyone but herself!  You'd have thought she'd be TRIPPING over herself to get out and find Gale or Peeta.  But no.  She just laid there, thinking only of HERSELF.  And WHY was she blaming GALE for PRIM'S death?!?  Are you KIDDING me?! And he took a job in 2 - or was it 4 - just to stay away from her...because he knew she hated him for killing Prim!   Um, WHAT?  Come again?! After all they'd been through and after HE HELPED HER FAMILY WHEN SHE WAS GONE???  What a selfish beotch!!!

GOD I just HATE her right now!!!!!!!!

BITCH, PARTY OF KATNISS?!?!?

When in Rome...

SPOILER ALERT:  I am 3 pages in to chapter 23 in Book 3. 

OMG can't say much because I am reading like a banshee!  But I had to comment on how TREMENDOUS a movie will be when they get to the part I am reading now.  They've lost almost everyone... it's just Katniss, Cressida, Gale, Peeta and Pollux left...they escaped the mutts underground...and they're in some woman's house, putting on her and her husband's clothes...so they can storm the bastille.  

This is almost FUNNY in its sadness.  Poor Peeta is biting pillows and sporting bleeding wrists from the bandcuffs he doesn't want removed.  Gale is gushing blood from his neck.  Pollux is mourning his brother.  And I am loving the fact that they were SMART ENOUGH to realize the only way to get to Snow without being seen is to dress like Capitalians!

This is OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!

War Games

SPOILER ALERT:  I am at 63% in book 3 in The Hunger Games series.

OK - so I've calmed down a bit from last night.  I am happier with Katniss today than I was yesterday.  She and Johanna (whose name I can never remember but who is one of my favorite characters; she's so Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted) are training like mad dogs in hope of being allowed to go to war with Gale et al.  Katniss is hell bent on killing Snow (who wouldn't be) but she should have thought of that before she decided to lay around and eat cheese doodles for weeks on end.  OK kidding...but apparently she's out of shape from all those concussions and gunshot wounds and whatnot...and they only want strong folk storming the Bastille.  Like that hottie, Gale.  Mmm hmm.  He can storm my Bastille any time.  (LOL that joke was pure cheese.)

Moving on...  The scene with Peeta being a rudedog in the lunch room was nothing short of bizarre.  That poor soul.  We all know how I love guys with mental problems that one can dissect and reflect on...so it's no wonder I love Peeta so much.  I'd be spending a ton of time in that room (as long as he's restrained, y'all)...just telling him all kinds of things about his childhood that I know.  Not that Katniss necessarily listened to him when he talked about his childhood; she was busy telling him stories of herself and Prim tiptoe-ing through the non-existant tulips before he poor father died and they went from eating Spam to Saint Bernards.  And when he got antsy and wanted to jam a pen into my aorta (another Girl, Interrupted reference) I'd have said "No worries, bud...do your thing and get out all the sillies.  I'll wait."

Prediction:  Cinna's not dead and Katniss is going to end up with him.  He's already seen her naked, right?

OK - time to read again.  Tracey will lose it if I don't finish this book soon.

C'mon Get Happy

SPOILER ALERT: I don't know where the heck I am because the damned Kindle won't sync with the iPad.  I think I'm at about 55% in Book 3. 

WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS UP WITH THIS CRAZY ASSED BOOK!?  Seriously - I am getting annoyed.  Why is Katniss so incredibly NOT hormonal?  She's 16 for god's sake!  Her hormones should be raging!  She should be making out with Gale...or pining for Peeta...or even realizing "OK - I'm not into either one of these guys"...because I'm into HAYMITCH."  SOMEONE for the love of God!  That's actually what I'm almost finding myself hoping for, that she'll fall for someone else.  (OK not really Haymitch.)  I was hoping she'd end up with Finnick for a little while but I guess not since he just married that crazy bitch really sweet girl, Annie.   

I am just getting annoyed.  Peeta is rescued and crazy - ultimately because of HER - and what does she do?  Runs to 2!!!  You would not be able to drag me from that room.  I'd have my nose pressed to the two way glass every second of every day, hoping I could do something...ANYTHING...to help him get better.  And I get it - she has made up her mind that he'll never get better.  But come ON!!!  SHOW SOME FUCKING EMOTION!!!!  I loved when she lost it and cried when they wanted her to make a promo.  I want more of that.  More emotion!  And my god - how STUPID is Gale?  The poor soul just follows her around like a puppy dog...and all she seems to want to do is die, in one way or another.  And I am finding myself almost hoping she does...just so I can stop being so miserable along with her.  Honest to God...SHE...IS...MISERABLE!!! And she's making ME miserable!  We get it!  Life sucks!  You want to kill Snow!  The districts have all fallen!  People are dying left and right!  It sucks so badly I can't compare it to any other suckage!  So you know what you do in that situation?  HOP ON POP!!! GET your ass with Gale in the woods and get yourself lovin' up on him and GET HAPPY FOR FIVE FRICKIN' MINUTES!!!!!!

Logic. It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore!

SPOILER ALERT:  I am on Book 3 - starting chapter 12.

I am spent.  I feel really emotional but it's not really a crying emotional.  It's just a "WTF, Katniss, it's about TIME you woke the hell up and joined this Peeta Party, you moron with a great shot" kind of emotional.

I mean COME ON.  WTF did she THINK Snow was doing to Peeta?!?  Giving him tea and crumpets?!?  Of COURSE he was going to beat him senseless whilst Katniss is frolicking around in her firegirl outfit and pointing fingers at the Capital.  Sometimes she is just so dense.  Grow a BRAIN, Ana Bella Sookie Katniss!

Oh, OH, OHHHH!!! And NOW...poor GALE has gone in to save PEETA while Katniss is sleeping her pretty little cry off.  Haymitch just told her.  And she's probably about to freak (I haven't turned the page yet.)  But what did you EXPECT?!?  The man does EVERYTHING for you and you show him NOTHING.  No love.  No affection.  Just a kiss when he's teary eyed.  My lorddddddddd, Liam Hemsworth Gale would be getting a LOT more than that from me if he were standing there TEARY EYED over ME!!!!

Katniss does not deserve Gale and she most CERTAINLY does not deserve Peeta.  Oh no she does not. She deserves to sit in a bunker in District 13 for the rest of her life, shooting her arrows and singing her favorite song in her head:  "Me me me me ME me me me ME me me me MEEEEE!"  Because it's all about HER and HER problems.  She doesn't give a rat's ASS about Gale..."Oh gee, I walked past his bed last night on my way to bother Finnick...so he must be mad...but I'm too important to be captured...so eff him, I don't have time for his shiz right now."

And what is going to KILL me is that they're going to rescue Peeta and she's going to be all "Ohhhh Peetaaaa" and once he's OK (from weeks of TORTURE because of HER) she's going to be all "Hmmm...Gale and I haven't spent any time together lately.  How DARE he look at the girl who serves him his broiled turnips!"  And I am going to lose MY OWN MFing TURNIPS on m'damned shoes.  Mmmm Hmmm.   And I don't even LIKE turnips.

OK I have to go.  I have SO much to say and SO much I've highlighted in both my iPad and Kindle.  But I have a house with no kids as they are up the street playing and I HAVE to read while it's semi quiet around here!!!!!!

2 Down, 1 to Go

SPOILER ALERT:  I just finished Book 2 and will be embarking on Book 3 shortly.

Oh boy.  They snached Katniss from the arena and Jeff Probst can NOT be happy.  He must be thinking NOW how am I going to have Tribal Council when I have no tribes?!

Poor Peeta.  He is somewhere with the Council (are they in a district? I forget) most likely having bamboo shoots shoved in his fingernails...but he won't crack about Catnip.  Oh no siree.  Even though she is having yet another anticlimactic moment with Gale, whilst being strapped down (no, this is not Fifty Shades...FOCUS!)  Every time this poor bloke pops up out of nowhere, we get nothing in the way of "Oh Gale" - a la "Oh Edward".  Oh no we don't.

All we get from unexpected meetings with Gale is..."I walked up the steps, and who greets me but Gale" (note the use of multiple tenses) or "I woke up and who was there?  Gale!"  and then she launches into whatever Katniss diatribe she's got on tap for today.  I mean, seriously!  You've been trapped in the arena...you never thought you'd make it out...and there - in front of you - is the man you've been in love with for years...GALE!  You've got to give me a little more in terms of "Holy shit, I want to jump out of this bed and throw my arms around him and maul his face until he's got to go wipe the spit off himself with an antibacterial Wet One!!!"

Oh yeah...YA.  I keep forgetting.  (said like Cindy Brady)

I have to say, I enjoyed Book 2 even more than Book 1.  There was just so much more to keep my interest.  I love variety.  Although, I will admit - there is a fine line between good variety and too many new characters/situations.  But luckily, this book had just the right amount.  I liked the girls living in the cement house.  I liked the meeting with the head Gamemaker, Plu-something (who can keep these names straight??  And totally called the fact that he was on her side, did I not?)  I could use a little more Gale...but I'm hoping I'll get that in Book 3.

OMG so WHAT is going to happen in Book 3??  Here is my prediction.  I think Gale is going to be in Book 3 a lot more.  I think Peeta is going to be held for a while and Gale is going to help Katniss find him.  I think it's going to be a long road and Katniss really is going to have a baby and Peeta is going to imprint on it the minute they find him.  Ok...maybe not that last part.

Stay tuned...I'm GOIN' IN!!!!!

Meanwhile, Back at the Cornucopia

So they landed at the cornucopia and took off for the jungle. And Katniss climbs a tree to get a closer look at what's happening back at the cornucopia...and is all annoyed that the victors/tributes have the nerve to be killing each other, leaving a sea of red.

"And you all knew each other", I think. "You acted like friends."

Yes, Katniss, and you didn't think squat of shooting your new, shiny arrows at Enobaria and Gloss. So PIPE DOWN, bitch!! "Survival of the Fittest" doesn't only apply to you!!


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