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haymitch seems so full of love and liveliness, compared to when we first meet him, so how does he end up isolated and bitter? i want to know but at the same time i don’t.

nonetheless, even though i’m still hoping for haymitchs triumph, i already know crazy shit will happen. because in the og books he’s alone, but how did he become that way? like does the capitol discover his plan and rebel endeavors so they punish him by killing his family and lenore dove? and make him mentor and watch the demise of district 12 tributes? this is what i’m assuming happens.

also i really like the community of the newcomers, compared to katniss’s pov there’s this sense of hope in this novel, like that these characters can actually do something for their freedom. there’s this fiery and electric energy between the characters, and their familiarity brings me excitement, and then i remember their fates, so i automatically get shut down. but im really interested in effie and plutarch.

i keep forgetting we already know haymitch, and younger self gives me so much hope for panem and his future, but then i remember that this is not exactly the case. i am so intrigued on how beetees and plutarchs plan is not going to work, i really want it to, but in the back of my mind i know something will happen to fuck it up.

i’m about halfway done and so much has happened. i really like being in the perspective of district youth. snows capitol youth pov actually killed me and i cannot recover. i really enjoy haymitch’s perspective. his personal accounts of everything remind me of katniss, but then i get reminded that he is literally her mentor.

it’s insane how they feel they either have to succumb to capitol pressures, or suffer in capitol punishment instead. i read these books like it’s real life.

i just finished the first 2 chapters and i am shattered. that reaping scene was so intense. everything that occurred between the families
tributes and peacekeepers was fucking insane. and when sickle called the chance boy a body i was livid. the fact that plutarch used family farewell too as currency for last moments was SICKENING. the mccoy family and lenore’s moments, i couldn’t. but then haymitchs family

8/8/26 ohhhh my god. i finally finished and i feel sick and ill. that ending between lucy and snow was CRAZYYY. he’s so selfish. and dean scene during the EPILOGUE. oh my god. the sejanus part was so sad too oh my. so many emotions. i read these last 75 pages in the last 2 hours or so and that was just insane. rollercoaster of emotions. snows buildup in character was so sad to see.

they have chemistry, they get each other, but i think at the end coriolanus will become someone unimaginable that will drive him and lucy apart. i think something is going to happen between them, to her, that will make her disappear and no one will ever know, just like her song.

the complications between him and lucy are finally occurring. they’re so similar but at the same time not, even if Coriolanus is sensitive and caring he’ll always be capitol and arrogant. even if he has suffered from the war he will never understand district struggle, and he does not want to. this is the underlying issue in his infatuation with lucy because at the end, she is not who he wants her to be.

it’s crazy to think that all the pain, struggle, and hunger district kids have felt so has coriolanus, but the life he makes out of it does not resemble empathy: he relishes and invokes capitol behavior when it’s useful to him and that’s the worst part of his character. there’s moments where i’m like “man poor guy” but then he says something or thinks something INSANE that pulls me back from sympathy.

i am almost done, like in the last 100 pages as we speak. however i feel like this book is soooo long, i feel like i’ve been reading this forever (because i have; self induced). i actually like that coriolanus is a peacekeeper and all the things that happen to him i think will be a life lesson, but only contribute to the horrific man he becomes in the hunger games original series.

was so devastating but relevant to the plot of the novel. i overall think it was a unique read and angsty in the BNW mindset. i may need to re-read since it wasn’t my fav but im open to giving a second chance. i liked the messaging of storytelling being a human condition, which invokes me to recommend it to others. fun (maybe a little boring) i give it a 2.8 but i will give it a 3 on here.

i really did appreciate petra as a strong willed character in how she fought for her achievement to leave and take those she believed in. i also thought the story of her losing her family was so heartbreaking and while i kept waiting for a happy ending of her finding them i kind of liked how that wasn’t the resolution. but i think even when she found javier finally that was so bittersweet and his ending fate

the world as much as i wanted to be. while i understand that it’s a cold and dark environment, i just could not find myself enthralled into it, i think that was one of the setbacks for me. however i think the collective and society in general was really interesting and reminded me of huxleys BNW but for teens. i kept making those comparisons as as i read and thought that was wild.

i read it in maybe a week and a few days. i liked it but i didn’t love it. i think the concept was really interesting and i loved that the protagonist was latina. stories and folk culture are big in latino culture and the protagonist using that as her superpower was really great. however i feel like my rushed limit to read it disallowed me to enjoy it so that might be my fault. i didn’t really feel immersed in

the gullah people were the central focus and i liked that about the main family we saw. and i also think even if we didn’t move from settings and characters it really allowed us to get to the know the turners. those are my notes!

maybe i’m getting too trivial but i agree with the mom whenever he’d show up. anyways i really liked it, i just wished those themes were explored in a different way, but i am also not the target audience. so i suppose in that mindset i appreciated it. and the whole novels focus was not on that struggle for black people in the 60s, it was more so about paving the way for young root workers in family tradition.

i thought it was going to be more about the integration of school children which the synopsis kind of leaned into but that was not prevalent. while i think the police scenes were vital to the story and eventually to their father, i kind of felt like maybe they did not end up anywhere, and the ending was not what i expected either. while i liked the nice police officer i felt like he made no difference.

and tradition was prominent in the protagonist related to a lot of what the human experience is. i kind of wish they dived more into 1960s culture, especially for black people, in more of a setting wise. while they did talk about the struggle of police brutality i wish that wasn’t the main focus, at times it kind of felt bleak and maybe that’s because we have a young audience.

i finished it in a week for class! i actually really liked it and the characters in the novel. i think it discussed good topics and themes essential for the reading audience. however in my personal opinion it was pretty scary for the age range lol. like some of the things jezebel experienced and saw was crazy. i also think it may be controversial in others pov but to me i really liked it. the discovery of ancestry

i still have some questions which i should probably read the second book. but even if the ending was rushed to segue the sequel, i still felt it was rushed. the plot twist just wasn’t my favorite, and i felt like the build up was dismal. i also wish we got more flashback scenes of bri growing up, i don’t know if that would ruin the narrative but that’s what i wanted. it was a fun book, maybe we’ll resume.

i liked the familial dynamic between mom mo and brisei, i like the rep! #lgbtq+litduringpridemonth 😝 however i didn’t like the relationship between marie and briseis mainly because she’s 300 years old. that just felt odd. and i kept getting pissed off at all the unanswered questions bri had, like bro just tell her.

i feel like the media i am most consumed in has trivial characters that are impossible to like so i enjoyed this novel. the relationship that she has between the plants was unique and i liked how she let go of her previous grudges when she moved to rhinebeck. and all the apothecary scenes and garden scenes were fun, but definitely not the star of the novel. i think the relationships in briseis life are the heart.

as a YA it was unique and different to what i typically read: it was teenage existential with a fantasy twist. it was fun but towards the end i started to get upset because i was like “there’s only 3 chapters left! this is so rushed” but i found out there’s a sequel so yay! maybe i’ll read it later on. but briseis was such a cute and fun character, she wasn’t problematic and extremely likable.

so i finished! i would give it a 3.75 and would definitely recommend it people. i finished it in under a week and i enjoyed it. “it was a fun little book” and easy to read. i like all the greek mythology stuff i thought that was really interesting on the authors part. i am so sad that karter was a coward, that made me sick.

BUT his inner psyche is very problematic nevertheless. although his experience as a child in the capitol is very interesting and shows the complexity of children in panem since he obviously is not living a promised lavish life, but that not does diminish his privilege. i think we see more about how careless the govt is in panem and how propaganda is ruinous to society. thank you!

even if he is capitol born, there is something different about him but ultimately we know his end fate as capitol snow. his empathetic portrayals are very powerful and poignant to the plot. when he shares his trauma and experiences from the war and thereafter poverty his humility resurfaces. those confessions make him the most human to me and i forget he’s a capitol citizen in those moments.

nevertheless, i of course love collin’s writing and after reading more about the grotesque theory i am sooo into THG. i have a love hate feeling for coriolanus: he’s likeable and empathetic, but his title and capitol status feeds into arrogance so much and it’s frustrating. his mind is infiltrated with capitol propaganda, and his need to one up everyone is exhausting. although he is very relatable and kind.

i am actually so bad at reading this book. i bought it august 2025 and i still have not finished. i started last summer but fell off because of school; then tried again in winter but stopped because of school; and NOW im in my summer semester and im trying to read it. it’s my goal to read this one and the new one before the new movie comes out in november.