Like you, I waited until all the books were out (I have learned my lesson after GRRM's fuckery!). And now I've just read them and it's love.
The last quarter of Mockingjay is indeed genius. First-person narrative was awfully restrictive in this book, though -- since Collins didn't plan for Katniss to be the Big Damn Hero, she might have loosened the POV.
But Peeta! Peeta! GUSH. He had me from the beginning as the abused little boy who quietly adores Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen's mythic romance, and Collins found a way to transform the love-starved fantasy into real, earned love for the real Katniss.
The epilogue makes me spitting mad, though. I'm writing a new one. Since I write fanfic approx once every 15 years and only when both highly invested and highly dissatisfied, draw your own conclusions.
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:35 am (UTC)The last quarter of Mockingjay is indeed genius. First-person narrative was awfully restrictive in this book, though -- since Collins didn't plan for Katniss to be the Big Damn Hero, she might have loosened the POV.
But Peeta! Peeta! GUSH. He had me from the beginning as the abused little boy who quietly adores Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen's mythic romance, and Collins found a way to transform the love-starved fantasy into real, earned love for the real Katniss.
The epilogue makes me spitting mad, though. I'm writing a new one. Since I write fanfic approx once every 15 years and only when both highly invested and highly dissatisfied, draw your own conclusions.