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?!?!?
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*runs to go and get Cari* Cari loved this book. Maybe she can help. It's been a long time since I read it and I feel like I can't remember very much. I know what you're saying. I liked book 3 but I was a little let down by it. The whole thing with Gale just didn't seem to fit anymore and I never really LOVED Katniss with all if her flip-floppiness.
flip-floppiness... good word!
Yeah, George and I were effected for different reasons from you carol, but yeah, not a feel good ending. I had a couple of people ask me about it and i said "well, I liked it, but i'm gonna say no unless you are into feeling bad after a series."
DO NOT get me started on Prim. How in bloody HELL do you kill her off in the last 20 pages for pretty much no reason, when THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE SERIES IS BASED ON KEEPING HER SAFE?????????? I swear, I was like, "that is hours and hours of reading time I will never get back."
I really try to think of HGs as a two-book series, cause if I think about the hot mess that is book 3, I want to just throw the book across the room.
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