I wondered what you'd think of book 3. I didn't love it -- i thought that some of the pacing and character chemistry that made the first 2 so fun were missing in the 3rd book. The scale of what was going on became too big for the book. And the booby trapped city just didn't make much sense to me.
Also, Prim's death really bothered me. It made the whole series feel totally pointless -- like all of Katniss' efforts had been in vain, since saving Prim and making a better life for her was Katniss' primary motivation all along. Not that i don't appreciate tragedies -- i think Prim's death could have been interesting -- but it happened too late in the book for it to really be handled with the substance it deserved. It felt like she became a plot device rather than a character. :-/
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Date: 2011-06-08 03:13 pm (UTC)Also, Prim's death really bothered me. It made the whole series feel totally pointless -- like all of Katniss' efforts had been in vain, since saving Prim and making a better life for her was Katniss' primary motivation all along. Not that i don't appreciate tragedies -- i think Prim's death could have been interesting -- but it happened too late in the book for it to really be handled with the substance it deserved. It felt like she became a plot device rather than a character. :-/