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Eject Creative eject — EDIT: So, after having read this book a few times and also seen the movie, I'm amending my review. I previously rated this as 3 stars, but with time it's grown on me and I think I'm going to bump it up to 3. One of my main criticisms is that the entire premise of The Hunger Games themselves was so over-the-top manaically villanous as to be completely unbelievable. Giving it a little more thought, I'm able to make the leap a little easier after thinking about the desensitization of society to violence, and the way people obsess about reality TV, and from a historic perspective, the way humans have the capacity to literally convince themselves that other humans aren't human. (In other words, slave owners really were convinced that they were a superior species to the blacks they enslaved, so in that sense it's not so hard to see residents of the Capitol holding similar attitudes towards residents of the Districts.) It's still ridiculous- the concept of the Careers is beyond absurd- but I can stomach it a little easier. Also, after having seen the movie, and how it addresses my complaints about the lack of rebellion in Book 1, I am going to give this some more leniency there too. The format of the book- first person present tense - makes it basically impossible for the book to touch on anything but Katniss's experience in the arena. The movie handles this well, in a way that Collins might have if she'd been able to shift the POV elsewhere. I'm more lenient, but I still think it's a flaw- there could have been much stronger hints interwoven, perhaps with Cinna, or the Avox girl, or even some inkling of an under-the-surface resistance among the black market participants in the Hob. As for the love triangle- still as STUPID as ever. I am really sick of the "plain girl doesn't realize that every boy she's ever met is madly in love with her" trope. I mean yeah, I had that fantasy when I was 14, but give me a break. It's ridiculous and frankly undermines Katniss's awesomeness. She can be just as much of a badass WITHOUT "lots of boys like her" and "she has no idea the effect she can have" and all that other crap. Peeta's mooning over her made me gag at points. Can we have some novels about teenage girls where romance is just completely NOT RELATED? PLEASE. Pretty please? OK, I won't hold my breath. ---------------------------------------------- So, what does it mean when you pick up a book one day, hold it over the stove while you stir your dinner hoping you don't drip sauce on it, don't put it down until you've finished the whole thing, and then go to write a review and feel the urge to give it only 3 stars? I love YA literature, I love fantasy novels, I love dystopian messed-up societies, I love plucky young female characters, and I couldn't put this book down until I had finished every last word. But the premise of this story is just a little too ridiculous. Katniss Everdeen is sent from her district to take part in The Hunger Games, a brutal fight-to-the-death battle between 24 teenagers broadcast on live TV each year. Just let that sink in for a minute. I mean, seriously? I'm not objecting to the level of violence, or how disturbing of a concept it is. It is very violent and very disturbing, and that's ok- sometimes that's what makes the best literature. I am, however, objecting to how RIDICULOUS it is. It just feels so contrived, that any evil, authoritarian government would even come up with something so absurd and extreme to keep their citizens in line and remind them who's boss, and the poor, dejected citizens would submit to it so docilely. The more the story develops, the more ridiculous it gets. You learn that citizens of the Capitol are so inhuman as to view the Games as wonderful entertainment, staging elaborate traditions and events around it and even betting on which children will die first. Again, I am sure that humans are capable of such awful things, but the degree to which the society in this book buys into it just comes off as completely unbelievable. There are are some minor background characters who have apparent rebellious streaks, and there are tiny hints of unrest here and there, but it is just not enough for me to go on. In the beginning chapters, this made it really hard for me to willingly suspend my disbelief. I got over that a bit in the middle, during the actual descriptions of Katniss's battle for survival. But the whole mess popped up at the end again, after the Games were over. In the beginning the lack of rebellion made it hard for me to really swallow the story. At the end it made it hard for me to even care. Why am I reading this story about these poor oppressed people if none of them are ever going to do anything about it? That's not even a story at that point. I'm being overly harsh. I really DID enjoy the book, and I've got books 2 and 3 right next to me, ready to be cracked open the minute I submit this review. I am sure my itching for rebellion of some kind will be addressed eventually, but it's still a pretty fatal flaw that so little of it was even hinted at in Book 1. So while the adventure is fun and engrossing, the premise is just a little too dramatic to be completely believable. And let's just not even get me started on the superfluous romance. No, really. I'm not going there.

Sam Claitor samclaitor — This was entertaining but I didn't love it. In fact I got bored halfway through, but it did pick up and by the end I liked it. He didn't really introduce any strong personalities until the middle/end so it took me that long to get attached to some of the people. I'm willing to give his other books a chance. But one thing I am a bit confused on: it's considered non-fiction BUT he creates this "character" that's not 100 % him (he uses a different name than his own etc...)- so it all left me wondering how much of it was really true, which annoys me.