Worst days
The Hunger Games trilogy was a breath of fresh air. I strangled and fucked my routine hard after finishing this series.
People started vacating my PG and the owner decided to shift the remaining residents to a different building of the same PG (in the next street). Me and few people of my PG were against this idea and we argued with our PG in charge and all of it was for vain.
We hated to shift because, if we do, we had to share rooms with people who already were staying in those rooms. Those guys didn’t vacate the PG but went to their hometowns due to this pandemic. Later we came to know that the owner of our PG planned to sell our PG building and that’s why they’re urging us to shift.
We shifted our belongings to the PG next street and fortunately I got a room for my own without anyone to share (and my very own cupboard). With a satisfied heart, I started my second book of the Hunger Games, The Catching Fire.
It was boring to the core initially, later in the story, there was a twist (a great one) followed by the most intriguing battle royale of the series. Climax twist was predictable and finishing the second book didn’t take much of my time. I finished it in, like, 3 sittings.
Personally, the second book was my least favourite of this trilogy. Ironically, the third part of the second book (The Enemy) was my most favourite part of all the 9 parts of this trilogy.
The only reason I hate this book was because of its 1st part. It was such a drag and I almost lost interest in the story. Most of all, I felt this book lacked the character development of Katniss and she was the same person as she was in the first book.
Katniss started having mental problems and the President snow’s mind games was predictable and not believable. Gale’s character arc had a development, but it was not explored by Suzanne. She should’ve made a point of view switch or at least dedicated a few chapters involving him.
One-minute Gale was vulnerable dude and the next minute he got this total attitude change and when I think about it, I can able to understand him, but it should’ve been showcased in this book. His character was ripped apart in the third book though. (weirdly which I liked it)
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I liked the third book of the Hunger games so much – which would be an unpopular opinion, but it had the perfect ending for this trilogy IMO. I know the climax was a bit sloppy but that was the moment President Snow mind-fucked Katniss. At one point, I rooted for president snow and regretted it sooner.
Overall Mockingjay was perfect and there was a song called the Hanging Tree. It creeped me out and at one chapter, the song was made analogical to the situation and wow!! It still makes my hair tingly when I think about it.
The way Peeta was handled in this book was awesome and his character change was somewhat explored in this book which I liked a lot – Another Unpopular Opinion, I guess. 🥱 Peeta’s character was hanging between a SIMP and an insecure guy in the first 2 books.
Many may find it cute and I kinda hated it because it started giving the Jacob vibes.
He got attracted to Katniss when they were both kids and started developing a crush. The side story of Katniss’s mother being a crush for Peeta’s father felt like an old folklore of a broken-hearted guy. I felt it was unnecessary and it was somewhat weird in a way. Combined with the fact of cheesy romance in the first book, I knew Peeta’s character would get broken.
In the beginning, his insecure character arc felt like a young adult thing but in the third book, when this insecurity and the broken heart tendency (you know what I mean) of Peeta got mutilated by President Snow, it made sense. I liked how an immature character was experimented psychologically rather than being used as a tool for cheesy romances and triangle fuck stories.
I have watched the Hunger Games movie Franchise back when it was released. I never knew that was adapted from the books. I had long forgotten the story of those movies except the fact that Jennifer Lawrence was in those movies. I have yet to re-watch those movies and I am already feeling that the movies won’t do any justice to these books.
Its a damned Political Thriller...
A political story, that I would like, should have a great antagonist. President Snow’s character was one of those characters. I heard that there was a prequel book for Hunger games which was written in President Snow’s point of view. I think I would like to read it. His character is also the reason this book feels like it fell under a typical young adult book. Every YA book I read had dealt with romances of a couple and the story would always revolve around them. Fortunately, and amazingly, this book fall under that cliché.
If I rank these books,
III Catching Fire
II Mocking Jay
I Hunger Games
Overall, the book, which had started as a good political thriller, suddenly started taking the young adult route and ending as a psychological political thriller.
I finished Mockingjay with a satisfied heart.
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