Rat 🛸

I was expecting a weird maths fantasy and instead I got that with additional feminism? So yeah good book

Very weird with delightful characters. Plot is pretty difficult to follow. Love the movie and this didn't disappoint but it is different in a fun way (they go to Wales!!) 

some things are really funny on reread like Finnicks seeming obsession with bread and Katniss being oblivious to everyone flirting with her.

Beetee, Wiress and Mags are Sooo good. the bit where it describes Haymitchs games is iconic. I love and hate it.

there's so much nudity in this book?? like not only is there the famous Johanna scene but she's also naked during training and at one point the main characters all lose their outer clothes and are just in underwear for the rest of the games? what??

I felt like I was entering another world when reading this.  Made me think of Britain's colonial crimes and how the ongoing effects are often swept under the rug and overlooked.

Depending on how much I connected with the stories my opinions varied hugely. I really loved Breastfeeding and The Long Braid - women's stories of resilience and autonomy always get me. I love the reoccurring theme of the sea and of women's rights, and I was very haunted by any details about relations with settlers (like in the one about grapes).