mae🐝

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the fact that the whole thing, i mean the ENTIRE thing is written from August's (A MAN'S) perspective....... HELLO IT'S WOMEN TALKING where are the women :( Someone I talked to about this book tried to argue that this is the point and some kind of meta-commentary but I just wanted women to write some pieces of this :/

an interesting read and an even better research topic to look into the real story!!

literally how did i do this twice- I once again read a sequel without reading the FIRST?!?! how did I even manage this and I feel as though I need to start looking up books in detail before reading them.

anywayyyyy a captivating read that took me a little while to get into, but definitely got me in the second half!

text to a friend after i completed the book: "there's just not one piece of that book that justifies its existence"

OOOOHHHH goodness that ending :,,,) I'm not scared anymore (crying)

sooooo this was my least favorite of the series!! but that does not mean I didn't enjoy it. I think the reason it was my least favorite is because the author kept doing this interesting thing that I'm not sure how to describe exactly.... I'm going to call it predictive emotion. A scene would happen, with the author very literally describing what was happening (think "I told Peeta I would see him the next day") and then the next sentence would be putting emotion behind whatever the action was (think "That made Peeta furious, because he could tell I was upset") and I was constantly thinking.... really? The predictive emotion I was supposed to gather from the happenings "on-screen", so to speak, felt inaccurate to me many many times. I was like.... is that the emotion I'm supposed to get from that conversation?? Am I.... stupid????

to give the author the benefit of the doubt, maybe that is the reason they were using so much predictive emotion, because most people wouldn't understand the emotional tones without the author specifying what we should understand/feel? Maybe that was their intention to make things more clear? It sort of just left me wondering if I was speaking and acting like an alien or if that was the characters in this story.

i thought this book was borderline unreadable and barely read half of it before giving up- it is a book i came across through no one's fault but my own (thank god none of my perfectly lovely friends recommended it to me) because i was innocently browsing the fiction section at my library and we all know by now that a book with interesting formatting, I am probably going to pick up! I love it when they are shaped funny or have weird quirks. Anyway, this book is written all through emails or texts and it is unbearably difficult to comprehend. Not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure all of these women hate one another and yet they are supposed to be the best of friends... feels like a hate crime towards the idea of womanhood and the deep incredible love that can be held in female friendship.... all these women wanted to do was tear each other down and undercut one another's successes!! also it was the most millennial style of humor and "hey girlies" dialogue I've ever read!!!!! and as someone with a millennial sister, i know even THEY can be funnier and more self aware than this!!!! wow I am usually not so picky but this one was ROUGH