mi ð 30/01/2024
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? i absolutely hate to admit it but i believe this is the weakest book of the series. i LOVED the whole thing, the whole plot. i basically ate the book in a few days but there were some stuff that felt so off for me.
katniss was completely lost in herself, to a point that i think there were just some attitudes extremely out of her character and it just didn?t make sense from what was built in the last two books and in the begging of this book itself.
her behavior towards peeta after he came back it just didn?t really make sense. i feel like she already ended the second book very aware of her feelings about peeta to simply dismiss him just like that. and seriously? the whole gale-kissing all time cause im still confused kinda of thing? i just didn?t buy it.
i know the whole point is to always show that she will never truly deserves peeta, even when he?s a capitol mutt. to show that she?s not the ?nice one?, but while her resentment towards that new version of him was totally comprehensible, her little acts just didn?t quite catch it.
also, a lot of things felt so rushed. like really what happened to elfie? her character suddenly coming back into the story made me feel so confused. finnick?s death had no emotion at all. the whole ending it just didn?t really get me like the movie did which is crazy. i feel like the book, this time, was maybe too rushed. maybe she should have written four of them, just to make sure.
but the thing i hated the most of all was the final choice. the way she described choosing peeta it felt like she just did cuz there was nothing else better to do, there was no further development into that, specially cuz we get a whole book with barely any moments of reconnection between them. like for real! the way she summarized everything in like 2 pages??? i barely died.
but still great book, it just felt kinda incomplete. should i read fanfictions about it?