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My response? I'm numb from all that war. I worked with refugees for years and this story has left me in the same state I used to get into after a tough day of work, jangling with a secondary PTSD -- a veryveryvery faint echo of what they experience.
So. Anyway. I'm still curled up with that and unable to catch the cleverness or plot twists or whatever. I keep trying to hold onto the last few lines of the epilogue -- the way Katniss does.
The ending felt rushed. We'd worked so hard to ...more
My response? I'm numb from all that war. I worked with refugees for years and this story has left me in the same state I used to get into after a tough day of work, jangling with a secondary PTSD -- a veryveryvery faint echo of what they experience.
So. Anyway. I'm still curled up with that and unable to catch the cleverness or plot twists or whatever. I keep trying to hold onto the last few lines of the epilogue -- the way Katniss does.
The ending felt rushed. We'd worked so hard to ...more
Apr 20, 2012
Andrea
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“Real or Not Real?”
Definitely Real. Given Suzanne Collins character development and gifted storytelling, there isn’t a moment where her futuristic dystopia does not feel real to the reader. Her ability to deftly draw you into every scene and absorb you into Katniss’s world enables you to suspend disbelief and “go” on the journey with her.
The Hunger Games series occurs in a future North America known as Panem, where government oppression severely affects the quality of life for the majority ...more
The Hunger Games series occurs in a future North America known as Panem, where government oppression severely affects the quality of life for the majority ...more
Couldn't write a review quite adequate for this series. Seems I'm still at a lost as to what to write here. Maybe I'm torn as to how I feel about the war; the deaths; the violence; the love triangle; the twist; the gladiator ways; the games; the end... I loved Peeta's character, Katniss and Finnik's also, just to mention a few. I'm still scatterbrained to write my coherent thought about this series. Can't wrap my mind around it. All I know is that I enjoyed reading all 3 books and hated it at t
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Not as engaging as the first two. And given the subject material, I was actually bored throughout a lot of this book. Also, the ending was totally rushed and parts of it left me unsatisfied.
Feb 28, 2011
Jane(Janelba)
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it was amazing
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Great finale to this trilogy.
Mar 22, 2011
Kris Ruggiero
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it was amazing
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Apr 01, 2011
Megan
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it was amazing
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