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A review by eemilycolleen
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
challenging
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
5.0
devastating, thanks!
i can’t BELIEVE how much stronger this book is than i gave it credit for in 2010. it’s brutal!!!! it’s awful!!! it’s just page after page of suffering and yet the pain never feels gratuitous or pointless? and STILL it manages to craft a believable hopeful ending? i love prim’s death, i love the debate to reinstate the games, i love the assassination of coin, i love the plodding circuitous path we take toward healing. when peeta plants the primroses???? sue me: i wept. “the promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. that it can be good again.” DEVASTATING! THANKS!
more Thoughts of Pain:
- “i must have loved you a lot.” / “you did.”
- “you’re a painter. you’re a baker. you like to sleep with the windows open. you never take sugar in your tea. and you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
- “the mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. then it’s over.”
- “i’m with the mockingjay.” (ok honestly the relationship between katniss and haymitch is so finely calibrated and the movies never QUITE managed to capture it? just how similar they are and how they hate in each other precisely what they hate in themselves. ugh good shit!)
i can’t BELIEVE how much stronger this book is than i gave it credit for in 2010. it’s brutal!!!! it’s awful!!! it’s just page after page of suffering and yet the pain never feels gratuitous or pointless? and STILL it manages to craft a believable hopeful ending? i love prim’s death, i love the debate to reinstate the games, i love the assassination of coin, i love the plodding circuitous path we take toward healing. when peeta plants the primroses???? sue me: i wept. “the promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. that it can be good again.” DEVASTATING! THANKS!
more Thoughts of Pain:
- “i must have loved you a lot.” / “you did.”
- “you’re a painter. you’re a baker. you like to sleep with the windows open. you never take sugar in your tea. and you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
- “the mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee’s trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. then it’s over.”
- “i’m with the mockingjay.” (ok honestly the relationship between katniss and haymitch is so finely calibrated and the movies never QUITE managed to capture it? just how similar they are and how they hate in each other precisely what they hate in themselves. ugh good shit!)