1. End of the day I guess maybe Collins wasn't good enough to carry this through the way she needed to because yes, she just randomly started writing a different series than the one I started reading. Like you I was so on board with the story of the how war can damage people but it could've been wonderful (and more interesting to read!) if she'd figured out a way to tell that story alongside the one she began.
2. Okay yeah, that's definitely a fuller picture of what was going on in her head. She even describes this a little bit at the end, wrt what she might tell her kids when the time came, what she'd tell them about what she did, how fit of a mother she could even be. And it's something that I think had been weighing on her for at least half of this book.
This... doesn't make me feel better about the fact she gave in and had the kids anyway though, I don't think.
3. I honestly think SC figured Effie would hurt less. Because at some point (oh my GOD the avoxes and the District 8 refugees, that should've gone in my point about Madge), it started to be about causing as much pain for Kat and the reader as possible. No seriously, that's the only sense I can make of it.
5. Cinna: still hard to talk about. Even the sketchbook got me.
6. I think she chickened out by letting him heal from the true loves, too. Good point, especially since the hijacking effectively made Peeta more than just a nice chap who loves Katniss, and falling back on the ~healing power of love~ kind of undermined that. I think it's good they got together but throughout the series there's been too much mixing that up with fixing psychological damage. 'Cos it's also heavily implied that Kat's inability to give into Peeta all along was because she's broken somehow.
7. A mess, yep. You put it into words better than me.
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1. End of the day I guess maybe Collins wasn't good enough to carry this through the way she needed to because yes, she just randomly started writing a different series than the one I started reading. Like you I was so on board with the story of the how war can damage people but it could've been wonderful (and more interesting to read!) if she'd figured out a way to tell that story alongside the one she began.
2. Okay yeah, that's definitely a fuller picture of what was going on in her head. She even describes this a little bit at the end, wrt what she might tell her kids when the time came, what she'd tell them about what she did, how fit of a mother she could even be. And it's something that I think had been weighing on her for at least half of this book.
This... doesn't make me feel better about the fact she gave in and had the kids anyway though, I don't think.
3. I honestly think SC figured Effie would hurt less. Because at some point (oh my GOD the avoxes and the District 8 refugees, that should've gone in my point about Madge), it started to be about causing as much pain for Kat and the reader as possible. No seriously, that's the only sense I can make of it.
5. Cinna: still hard to talk about. Even the sketchbook got me.
6. I think she chickened out by letting him heal from the true loves, too. Good point, especially since the hijacking effectively made Peeta more than just a nice chap who loves Katniss, and falling back on the ~healing power of love~ kind of undermined that. I think it's good they got together but throughout the series there's been too much mixing that up with fixing psychological damage. 'Cos it's also heavily implied that Kat's inability to give into Peeta all along was because she's broken somehow.
7. A mess, yep. You put it into words better than me.