"Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay"
Sep. 12th, 2010 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamara_russoFor those who don't recognize, these are the two last books in "The Hunger Games" trilogy. I swept through them in the last few days, and I came up for air just now.
And it really means "came up for air" since I've been crying my eyes out for the last four-or-so hours.
God the amount of violence. Tragedy. Trauma. Loss. Loss, loss, loss, loss. When one says "everything is ruined" he can't possibly mean that unless it's what happens in "Mockingjay". Really.
The biggest thing is Prim. Prim dying is one of the most horrific scenes I ever read, and remembering Rue in the first book... Rips your heart out. And the scene with the cat in district 12 is also quite horrible, and tear-jerking as hell.
It's bad, though. I hate these books now. They leave no place for hope, even though they end with Katniss and Pitta's children. The thing is, you can't live with such a loss.
And I hate how Suzanne Collins describes it - she knows nothing about trauma, it seems, and worked herself into a spot where almost everybody must die for the sake of dying.
Maybe more later.
And it really means "came up for air" since I've been crying my eyes out for the last four-or-so hours.
God the amount of violence. Tragedy. Trauma. Loss. Loss, loss, loss, loss. When one says "everything is ruined" he can't possibly mean that unless it's what happens in "Mockingjay". Really.
The biggest thing is Prim. Prim dying is one of the most horrific scenes I ever read, and remembering Rue in the first book... Rips your heart out. And the scene with the cat in district 12 is also quite horrible, and tear-jerking as hell.
It's bad, though. I hate these books now. They leave no place for hope, even though they end with Katniss and Pitta's children. The thing is, you can't live with such a loss.
And I hate how Suzanne Collins describes it - she knows nothing about trauma, it seems, and worked herself into a spot where almost everybody must die for the sake of dying.
Maybe more later.
