My every day drive to and from University appears to have washed away since I began perusing these. However, from multiple points of view they additionally abandon me needing something more. Possibly the inclination while Katniss is one extreme so thus she additionally makes figure she should leave her shell progressively and begin kicking some ass.
She is better than average with a bow yes yet she just needs something, perhaps it is the picture or her choices however it influences her to appear to be slight and frail, which when it is required can be a challenging issue to pull at your feelings in any story yet this appears to extend endlessly and I simply feel like there is significantly more potential from her as a character.
The world is brimming with gutless nitwits, is it a lot to request to have somebody with a smidgen of flavor when your lone farthest point is creative energy? I have presumably dozed as meager as katniss, Fox confront and the contenders in the diversions since I began this superb book.
I read no less than a book a week and have since I was 8, that is a considerable measure of books. This one is in my main 5 ever and right now, the snapshot of having actually quite recently completed it, holds the best spot.
I should dash cos I can hardly wait to begin book 2. I complete tend to ponder, when the full assortment of substantial capacities are not specified, what the characters did about everything, maybe that is simply me. Anyway, the books have a decent pace, parts going ahead constantly yet not in the slightest degree confounding. A companion proposed the books to me as an occasion read, they were ideal for that. Skip to content Free Audiobooks Online. Katniss and Peeta are both home and they both are remembering everything that they were forced to endure during the games.
It has been a year already, and they are getting ready for gosh this feels like a bad word, but… celebration. Yet, this is the real start of the Gale versus Peeta love triangle for me. And he also lets her know that they have a whole tour of all the districts, filled with opportunities to prove themselves and their love for one another. Which essentially means they have an even more wild game every 25 years.
And during the last one? Haymitch was the winner. She is also quickly realizing that she is going to be forced to keep convincing the world of her love for Peeta forever, because they will always be in the spotlight for the rest of their lives. Oh, and Peeta has an artificial leg now, and it makes me wish so desperately that they included that representation into the movies!
This is also the iconic favorite colors green and orange scene and I love it a lot, honestly. But Peeta and Katniss make their way to district 11 and they make their speeches to the people. After that grand gesture, an old man makes the whistle sound that Rue and Katniss made in the games, and he is promptly killed. Katniss and Peeta cuddle each night and try to protect themselves from the nightmares, while they go on their full tour to all the districts while being engaged.
But after that, Gale gets whipped and I felt really bad. Yet, they obviously are not going to run away any longer. And Katniss starts to really believe that maybe an uprising can spark a revolution. But we also learn about a conspiracy theory that they people are somewhere safe and waiting.
She also learns that they are hiding something in district 8 and showing the same television clip over and over. Reminder that Katniss is the only girl who can go back, and Peeta and Haymitch are the only two boys. And then Haymitch is picked, and Peeta volunteers to take his place like the good boy he always is. We get to really start to begin to see the sad truth of what it means to be a victor in the games.
Finnick and Katniss meet for the first time, and its so heartbreaking and heartwarming in the same exact instant. But Katniss and Peeta are meeting people and practicing their skills and abilities. Peeta, as always, is such a people person, who everyone loves, but Katniss just cannot bear getting close to anyone again.
Even though her and Peeta put on very heartbreaking and memorable acts at the end of this chapter. Then Katniss and Peeta have a rooftop picnic where they just spend the whole entire day together. This is truly one of my favorite chapters, and just the calm before the storm.
Or the calm before Katniss puts on the mockingjay outfit that Cinna has made for her. Then… the most heartbreaking part of this entire book happens, and while Katniss is in the tube to go up to the game, she is forced to watch Cinna be beat and killed before her. I truly wonder if Cinna knew what would be his fate, when he made that dress and when he unapologetically believed in Katniss with a love so strong that it was his end. Katniss believes Peeta to be dead. And then she believes Finnick to be kissing him, until she realizes he is saving him.
Katniss and Finnick are forced to carry the other two, until the weight is too much to bear, and the deadly fog is creeping closer and closer. Mags understands the severity of the situation and throws herself into it, in hopes that the others will get away, safely.
But the three of them are still retreating when they stumble across another small group of Johanna, Beetee, and Wiress. But they are all somewhat injured some worse than others , but Wiress keeps saying the famous like "Tick, tock. Tick, tock" which they have no idea what that means… yet.
Basically, the map is one big clock and each hour some deadly force happens. And Katniss now believes she is hearing Prim. This is really sad foreshadowing of what is to come in Mockingjay and I gasped a little bit, truly. Oh, and Peeta is being really sweet and romantic to Katniss, because he refuses to let her sacrifice herself for him.
And this time Katniss is positive that she is going to die. She heartbreakingly finds out that people knew and were part of a rebellion plan the whole game and used her without her consent or knowledge. And they chose to save Katniss, and not Peeta, because she is a symbol, even though she never asked to be one. Katniss feels so betrayed and helpless.
And then the book ends with her finding out that district 12 has been firebombed and is gone. Trigger and Content Warnings for talk of loss of a parent, animal death s , abandonment, depression, PTSD depiction, blood depiction, alcoholism, gore, violence, murder, talk of suicidal thoughts, talk of death in the past.
View all 5 comments. Jul 15, Sophie rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , wishlist , science-fiction , fiction , read-in , read-in This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I can't review this without being spoilery, so The one thing I didn't like about this book is the part where Katniss finds out she has to go back to the Hunger Games.
I think there should have been more of a pause there--for disbelief, for Katniss maybe trying to think of ways out of it, ways to kill herself even. The book started moving at a really fast pace after that point, with Katniss and Peeta preparing for the next Games, and I was like "wait, what? One night of drinking didn't seem to cover it. The mockingjay imagery. The clock arena.
The rebellion. President Snow being creepy as fuck. I was yelling and yelling at them to do it, and then finally they did, and I was like "YES! I find the love triangle a little annoying but mostly interesting. Katniss doesn't really know how she feels about either of them, because she doesn't have the freedom to feel on her own terms. I like that she has some makeout time on the beach with Peeta, though.
This series is reminding me more and more of Scott Westerfeld 's Uglies series. I was hoping it'd go that way when I first read The Hunger Games.
I was like, this government needs to be overthrown , Tally Youngblood-style. View all 48 comments. Nov 13, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , science , contemporary , fantasy , literature , fiction , adventure , united-states , romance , apocalyptic. Six months later, prior to Katniss and Peeta's "Victory Tour" of the country, President Snow visits and tells Katniss that her televised acts of defiance in the previous Games have inspired rebellion among the districts.
Snow demands that Katniss convinces the country that she was acting out of love for Peeta, not against the Capitol, or her entire family and best friend Gale Hawthorne will be executed. Katniss reveals this threat to her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, but not to Peeta. Peeta announces that he will give part of his winnings to the families of Rue and fellow tribute Thresh, and Katniss delivers an impromptu, heartfelt speech expressing her gratitude to the fallen tributes.
An old man salutes Katniss, joined by the crowd; to her horror, the old man is immediately executed. Hoping to placate Snow, Peeta proposes to Katniss during a televised interview in the Capitol. Katniss accepts, but Snow is dissatisfied with her performance, leaving her fearing for her loved ones. One taught me love. One taught me pain. Shelves: favorites.
Oh, snap. This is not a cliffhanger people, this is inhumane. Like hanging on for dear life by a spider web thin thread totally butt naked you know that makes it worse! It's so worth it though. Katniss is living in the Victors Village with her family. You'd think she could finally be able to relax and live the cushy life. Well that wouldn't make a good book. There are rumors of rebelli Oh, snap. There are rumors of rebellion and since Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger Games in defiance they have become the faces of that rebellion.
The Capitol, particularly President Snow, is not happy with them. Now Katniss has to worry about looking as in love with Peeta as possible to quiet down the rebellion, but is that what she really wants? How else would it have worked? I love Katniss and I hate her. She frustrates me beyond belief, but you have to love her.
I love how you see and know everything from Katniss's point of view. You feel just as scared for her family. You feel her confusion and doubt.
You just really feel. I could probably name off a bunch of things that bothered me about the book I think I mentioned how I HAAAATE love triangles with a burning passion but you really care about the characters. You can't even hate Katniss's team of stylists, who are selfish Capitol dwellers. I get totally immersed, constantly trying to figure it all out.
The ending is just so…epic! How everything just falls into place and makes sense. You see the characters in a whole new light. So what do you read after a book like this? You see, this is the type of thinking you have after reading the book. View all 25 comments. Dec 05, mark monday rated it really liked it Shelves: rain-man-reviews , teenworld , after-the-fall.
View all 39 comments. Mar 21, Cait Caitsbooks rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , scifi-and-dystopian , young-adult.
I love how its canon that Peeta has done nothing wrong in his life and must be protected. Aug 12, tee rated it did not like it Shelves: e-pube , traumatically-shit.
So I got bored about halfway through and because I was bored I started focusing on the irritating things. So, Katniss asks a lot of fucking questions. This book should be titled Curious Katniss and the Game that she should play is "How long can Katniss go without asking a question before we blow her skull to smithereens?
It'd be a really, really short booK and people like me would either rejoice, or be sad because Spoilers? It'd be a really, really short booK and people like me would either rejoice, or be sad because then we would have to find something productive to do with our time. I did that! See, along with other people asking questions I didn't compile these along with the slew of 'maybes' please refer to a rundown of this later in my review and the lack of anything interesting happening - this novel is a prime candidate for, I don't know, being used as toilet paper.
Except I have too much respect for my arse to do that. Just because it's YA, it doesn't mean you get to get away with being shit. Katniss asks questions in her head and as a reader, we are privy to the inanity of her thoughts. Then I turned and as Gale and Haelle and all the kids waiting for me, so what could I do but go along?
What do they want? Why is my mother so pale? Perhaps I wouldn't have had such a problem with the questions if Collins didn't frequently go on a mad, frenzied self-questioning rampage, like so: If he knows this, what else does he know? And how does he know it? Haven't we for years? Those questions were all in one paragraph. And here's the rest of Katniss' internal monologue, for your reading pleasure.
Drink it? And how? Hey, Peeta, remember how I was kind of faking being in love with you? Who else will be dead if I don't satisfy President Snow? That really isn't the point, though, is it? Disappeared into the woods and never came out? Blow my lips up like President Snow's? Tattoo my breasts? Dye my skin magenta and implant gems in it? Cut decorative patterns in my face? Give me curved talons? Or cat's whiskers? Do they really have no idea how freakish they look to the rest of us?
How far south have we come in a day? If I had a bow and arrows, would I just keep going? What do they do? Have preliminary drawings?
Thresh's grandmother? One of Rue's little sisters? How did I not know that? Was it enough? BUt what can he do? Have I? But will he even come? Didn't I do the same thing to my mother? Was that directed at me? Did he try to come to Gale's aid before I got here? District 3?
From the Capitol itself? I have to try to fight? How could we do that here? Would the people of District 12 join in or lock their doors? What do I mean when I say I love Gale? Is he really planning to go through with it?
What, in his twisted brain, will that achieve? Is it for the benefit of those in the Capitol? And then he'll kill us? As a lesson to the districts? Who else would I be?
Could it be true? Could there be somewhere to run besides the wilderness? Somewhere safe? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? Has Thread turned on the fence as an addition security measure? Or does he somehow know I've escaped his net today? Is he determined to strand me outside District 12 until he can apprehend and arrest me? Drag me to the square to be locked in the stockade or whipped or hanged?
I thought no one saw me sneak under the fence, but who knows? Or is Thread acting on his own? What does it mean? Existing pool of victors? Where to go? What could I possibly want here? Broiling themselves? Or do I see the president fixated on me as well? That we're sorry for the other's lot?
That we ache for the other's pain? That we're glad we had the chance to know each other? Something to upset them? You, who have given your talents to the Games? Are they jealous of its beauty? The power it might have to manipulate the crowd? Keep a secret from who? Where on earth is he going with this? And me? And it could be true now, couldn't it? That every victor has? Every parent in every district in Panem? Where is he now? What are they doing to him?
Torturing him? Killing him? Turning him into an Avox? For Finnick to win my trust, and then swim out and drown Peeta? Know him better? Owe him more? But to what end? And who knows what the night will hold? So how can I kill him in his sleep? Why didn't he just let him die? And why was he so determined to team up with me? What does that signify? One ring for each district?
But why? Was it because she was so old her days were numbered anyway? Where is it? Peeta's life above their own? What are they doing to her? Why is she part of the games? Do they have her up in the trees? Why didn't Peeta come to help me?
Why did no one come after us? I've set thousands of snares. Isn't this just a larger snare with a more scientific component? Could it work? What do we know about harnessing power from the sky? How can I protect him from a distance? I think. What is happening? Did he actually try to drive the knife into the force field the way Peeta did by accident? And what's the deal with the wire?
Was this his backup plan? What would that do, anyway? A great deal? Fry us all? Why would I need reminding? Will there be a victor of the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games? Moved them from hospital to prison? Or did he really have no idea what Beetee intended?
How is he even here? But Katniss doesn't keep her questions to herself; she annoys everybody else with them! I couldn't bear to NOT share the following with you. Katniss takes it upon herself to question everybody, everywhere "You're hideous, you know that right? How can I aim higher? Like Effie's hair?
To paint them out? Not being straight with each other? You don't think I'm mad? You'll go with me? SEnd her over? What does that mean? A shot of a bird? You think you're just going to find some new city with people strolling around in it? And that's just fine with the Capitol? If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games.
But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Still, if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games.
There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. Compatible with any devices. This beautiful hardcover box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collins's internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
With all four of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games novels in one box set, you can step into the world of Panem with the 10th annual Hunger Games, and continue all the way to the electrifying conclusion. It has not been prepared, licensed, approved, authorized or endorsed by Suzanne Collins, her publishers, or Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation"--Cover. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future.
But their victory has caused rebellion to break out As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.
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