By the way, people, this going to be the most spoiler-tastic post, so if you haven't read the hunger games, go read them and then come back and read this, and if you have: enjoy my conflicted feelings.
So, over all, I loved it, it was amazing and I read it in like two days.
But here's what was weird, though out the whole book, and what made it hard to predict what was going to happen:
I couldn't tell where the author or the characters stood, as far as 'morals' go, and I'm not saying that an authors morals carry out into the book, because a lot of times, especially in a book like this, they don't, but I didn't know what kind of standpoint she was taking.
In video games and stuff, theres lots of killing, and its kind of no big deal. Kill the guards, kill the spies, kill the bad guys. Kill everybody. A lot of games are win-by-killing-everyone games, but its not like that translates into real life or anything. I don't think that most people could kill a person. I know its different when you're raised in poverty and you kind of just do what you have to do, and you're used to the horrible horrible games.
I didn't know if Katniss would kill anyone and I didn't know if Peeta would. But most of all, I couldn't tell if they were going to feel anything or regret it, if they did, and I couldn't tell if it would be looked down upon when they got home that they'd just killed a bunch of teenagers.
And there is absolutely no way you could go into something like that and come out in the least bit sane. Even without it being about winning, it would still be almost impossible to live for weeks in that kind of condition, virtually alone, especially with those creepy mutt things.
And I didn't know what could possibly happen in the games, because there could only be one winner, and when the rules were changed it did almost seem a little too perfect.
But back to the storyline.
At first, I loved Peeta. He was like awesome and cool and funny and cool and awesome and funny and nice and SUPER SWEET and cool and all around just the bees knees.
He was nice to her and she was a little standoffish about it, which really annoyed me. I mean, why can't she just accept that some people are just nice.
I don't know, and it really annoyed me that she thought that it was all an act and that he was just trying to get her to open up to him so he could kill her when the games started. Gosh. GOSH.
And then when when he was in the interview and he said all that stuff, I stopped right at the end of that chapter to have dinner, and I was freaking out I was so happy. Like FINALLY! ( actually thought that he was going to say he liked her sister, I don't know why I thought that, but it would also be a real problem. I mean, prim wouldn't accept him if he'd killed her sister, but if he didn't killer her sister, chances were he was going to die, yah?)
And then I read some more and I was like, "what!" So he pretty much admitted that it was all a fake, just to make her more valuable in the games, right? Well, WELL, I TOTALLY believed him when he said he had a crush on her, and then I can't really remember what I thought when he said that it was fake. I mean, I was totally crushed. (crush, crushed. GET IT?? AHHAHAHA)
And then I was devistated all the way until I read that he killed that little girl that made the fire and I was like, "uh huh, there is no way, he haass to be playing" I thought he was playin', but i wasn't sure, and I was just really sad because nothing was working out at all!
And then that whole wasp thing happened, and she was all delirious, and he saaaved her. And I was so happy I jumped around for a couple minutes (I pretty much read this entire book in my room and I can't even tell you the crazy emotional rollercoasters that happened. I did a lot of silent screaming.)
And I knew, I knew. He wasn't playin'. I didn't know that he actually liked her, but I knew that he wasn't all bad, and that he really was that totally sweet bread boy. so sweet.
And then ya-da-ya-da-ya, I didn't know he actually liked her until he was like, dead, and they were like, on the same team. And then I did a lot of this:
"OH MY GOSH KATNISS YOU ARE SO. DUMB. STOOOOOOOPPP BEFORE YOU CRUSH HIS SOUUUUL!!!!"
And I was so sure so. sure. that throughout this whole thing he knew she was totally playing because 1. he told her he was playing, and she knew, and they had this whole compromise thing. 2. he's smart, and he should have picked up on her horrible acting skills. 3. yeah. he should have just known.
So I totally didn't see the end coming and its sad sad sad, and I want the next book NOW.
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