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The satire in this play makes me cringe. Wilde was a funny guy though, so I can appreciate this book.
I don't know how a book can make me smile and laugh and cry and question the future of not only myself but the characters as well. You don't need cancer to relate to this book, you don't even need to know anyone with cancer to relate to it. It just speaks to you. It accommodates itself to your life in its own way. Everything about The Fault in Our Stars is perfect. This book has left it's own scar on me but I'm glad it did.
Honestly was wishing there was more to this because I wanted to like it. I really did. It was short so I thought it would be sweet - no. I like how all of the characters are connected by love, and I loved the premise of this book-finding out what exactly WHY each character had to die at the specific time they did. But I didn't really care for any of the characters and I didn't really feel a wow factor after I finished it. It had some great quotable lines, but sadly that's all this book really did for me.
Quick read. Not too big of a fan. Leo was boring. Stargirl was not...but she was a bit TOO odd. Not that that is a bad thing, because I like the message the author is trying to send but I feel as if Leo and his classmates learned nothing, she was shunned up until the very last day when she left...This book left me unfulfilled, and usually even with books aimed for a younger audience, I can appreciate them, but this one? Not so much.
I was looking through some of the books on my shelf and remembered this one - it was cliche, I'll admit, but it was an easy, fast read. I also got it for $1 at Dollar General - definitely wasn't expecting it to be too great. But it was decent & exceeded my expectations
People always tell me they hate this book in the series. I guess I see why - it's depressing, filled with murder & hate, the love triangle angle isn't prominent as much as it is in the first two books...but this is what Suzanne Collins wanted to do. She wanted to stray away from that to show the war, the sacrifices the characters had to make, the repercussions (including severe PTSD, torture, loss of family friends and their homes) this isn't meant to be a happy story.
Does it get depressing at times? Yes. That just means Collins did her job effectively at showing just what this war did to the characters. It took away everything from them.
And yes. Katniss HAD to end up with Peeta. It couldn't have gone any other way. Gale was just comfort to her. He was never anything more. But every time Katniss was without Peeta - in 13 before he was rescued, in the mansion after Prim, in the victor's village after her trial - she is completely lost. She has no hope, no fire. When peeta returns, he restores that fire in her. He truly does give her hope. She can keep fighting, if not for herself or anything else, just for his life. They had to be together and I'm completely okay with this. I was sad Peeta was not the same, but that was to be expected. He was tortured and changed.
The only thing I was not okay with was Finnick. It was so pointless and did not need to happen. Yes, it was important for Collins to show the things that happen in war, people die. But did she have to kill him in such a meaningless and easily forgettable way? I wish she had at least killed him in a more dignified way. When he died I had to go back and re read it because I was completely disappointed. Even Boggs had a more memorable death.
Overall, I loved this book, I love the series, and i can't wait to re read them all over again.