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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.

that’s actually so embarrassing and on pride month too, shame shame. anyways i read there is some greek mythology which sounds exciting. the topics and themes so far are very fun for a YA novel: there’s adoption, LGBTQ+, black rep, and fantasy. i am exciteddd

i have to read this book for my YA and children fiction class and i actually really like it. i underestimated it at first but it’s a fun easy read and i definitely would’ve liked this in high school. i just finished chapter 3, and to finish on a timely schedule i have to read 4 chapters a day!! although what is funny to me is that i didn’t realize mom and mo were marriedddd. it took me until chap 3 to realize.

i wanted more from the families too but that never really happened. i wanted more experiences and interactions with their job, acquaintances, neighbors or SOMETHING. i wanted something other than these two characters. i just felt like this novel wasn’t for me. maybe im too immature to like or understand it but it was boring. even her prose at times didn’t seem exciting to me. i’m sorry i wanted to like it.

while i understand the premise of keeping them unlikable or unreliable characters it just didn’t work. at least for me, these characters were just really amusing, and were so insufferably dysfunctional. i found reagan annoying at times, while she has some interesting qualities most of her povs made me yawn. aldo was so pretentious it hurt.

the premise of the novel sounded interesting at first, but i got bored quickly. i understand that it’s more so conversation based and monologue oriented, but that also stood as the action in the novel making it bleak for me. i also felt like the characters were not very interesting either. i kept waiting for clarity on them or something exciting to happen but it never really did.

so i had to read this for a school book club and i was not impressed. i even chose this book that makes it worse. anyways, it was hard to keep my attention on and the most interesting part of the book was the middle. before they got into a mess of a relationship was when i was hooked. their dynamic was not really enthralling either.

i also didn’t really like how he used Emi as a character either. she was only there to show ichiro how he can turn his life around and he was not all the best to her. and the fact that she was introduced from kenji to make them sleep together is nott it. all the women in the novel didn’t have substance when there was so much to them that could have been written out. one of my biggest pet peeves.

i also didn’t like how she was the big representation of Japanese culture in a negative light. and that chapter when they visited other families that mainly focused on the irrationality of the women, didn’t sit right with me. and the fact that the mom dies and he feels instant relief, symbolizes the death of rigid his Japaneseness in himself to finally move forward. not a good storyline tactic.

while it was a new type of read and gave me insight into Japanese American culture after WWII, i couldn’t help but feel misogyny through the books. like the hatred and resentment he has for his mom irks me, and he never treats his dad the same way his mom. while yeah maybe she wasn’t the best character there’s no reason for her to hate and treat her that way.

i have finished. it was 251 pages long and i started maybe a week and a half ago. it was an interesting perspective to read: ichiro is very cynical and self loathing for both the right and wrong reasons. he has so much anger built up and hopelessness, understandably so, but the characters through out the novel attempt to show him the outskirts of this perspective.

it’s actually really good i’m enjoying it. we read king lear as well in another class so it’s fun to see the parallels. but it’s more intriguing than that. smiley really does great story building and narration with themes that cut deep, such as women’s health and issues. ginny and rose are so complex and their bond is the essence of the novel. all the men in the book actually make me so mad. anyways i <3.

it was so boring honestly. i kept hoping for some tragic ending or closure but it never came. i honestly didn’t really like the plot at all either. maybe it’s because i never read the tempest but regardless of that the second half of the book just wasn’t great. the grief journey was unsatisfying and i never really felt like felix changed. anyways that’s my take because my professor loved it.

it’s okay. i love that this novel feels like a novel. it’s a lot of shakespeare and im not about it all the time. better than BNW but it’s whatever. for the class its a solid book.

okay so i have to read part one (chapters 1-9) and i’m actually enjoying it so far. at first i was not thrilled because it’s a shakespeare rendition but doesn’t seem too crazy, yet. i like the writing so far and compared to BNW this is so refreshing.

hemholtz was actually my favorite he was cool. he was a writer with feelings and had so much ambition. bernard was just your typical coward in a way that’s funny. i liked john until i didn’t. all three of these guys are funny though. like when they would discuss with each other and when they got sent to mustapha was funny. anyways wasn’t my favorite and wouldn’t read again but glad i read it.

i can’t with this. was hard to read and just led the male gaze in its narration. i liked the story building, even if it’s all fucked up, but it was interesting to see how the world state functioned. so i liked it until the last 30-40% of the book. chapter 13 was crazy. john deserved better but he wasn’t the hero we thought after all. also bernard was funny and i liked hemholtz.

it just wasn’t my favorite. they obviously love the good vs evil trope and i just feel like that’s too typical. i mean it is like one of the first EPIC POEMS but eh, wasn’t for me. at least i can say i read beowulf.

so i finished reading it and just eh. i mean i liked it the beginning and the topic of grendel and biblical references towards beowulf too, but after they killed grendel’s mom it was boring. it felt like a whole love poem to beowulf in the way they described him and his heroism. like blah blah we know he’s the man. woman don’t have a role and when they do they’re submissive or evil.

i’m actually so confused by the ending like what was that… john’s ending made me so sick, and the increased chanting felt like a fuzzy dream.

insane like john is going rogue. people are losing jobs and having feelings. linda died. crazy stuff. and i used to like john :(

actually just insane

i stopped reading for a week, but i’m picking up again and trying to finish before school. we really get to see inside the capitol more and how they traumatize and humiliate the youth which is interesting. i like lucy and coryo’s relationship but i don’t understand how it’ll go further. the more i empathize with snow i less and less understand him.

i actually like it so far and my biggest put off on reading this book stemmed from my wariness of the characters and era. i did not think i would enjoy a collin’s book without katniss and peeta but its actually good. it’s so interesting on how snow parallels the feelings of district children with his struggles, but snow was raised so entitled he cannot believe district and capitol people the same.

i really did enjoy the book. mostly volume 2 with frankenstein’s, the “monsters,” pov. i thought a lot about humanity and how ugly we can be. but also how thirst and knowledge can drive madness, which scared me. while i do not condone frankenstein’s actions, i always felt for him and never once pitied victor. at the end victor mirrored his creation: whom he hated. and at the end they became one another.