beforeyouandidie's reviews
104 reviews

wow, what a sequel! the hunger games was fantastic, obviously, but i have forgotten how strong of a sequel catching fire is and how much everything hurts (i teared up quite a few times). i don’t think 10-year-old me had any business reading this (it is a young adult book, but man…). i do remember how mockingjay broke me when i read it for the first time, so i guess i have that to look forward to.

fantastic as always! i’m sad i’ll have to wait however long for the next instalment

this is probably my fourth re-read of the hunger games, but it’s my first time reading it as an adult, and let me just say, it absolutely holds up.

when i read it last, i was quite a few years younger than katniss was in the first book and she seemed so mature and grown up to me, but she truly reads like a teenage girl and it hurts so much seeing her go through such horrific things.

i bought a copy of my brilliant friend in my first year of undergrad and only got around to reading it now, in the summer of my first year of grad school. so grateful for taking a chance on it and keeping it with me all these years (it survived quite a few moves!).

i loved this book so so much. the prose is fantastic, with quotes that left me wanting to pick up a pen and underline them (and i normally don’t write in my books). girlhood and female friendship is portrayed so realistically and beautifully that i don’t even care if elena ferrante is secretly a man writing under a woman’s pseudonym (which i highly doubt). also sapphic undertones? count me in.

i think this is a perfect case of “it’s not you, it’s me.” 20% in, i could not bring myself to give a shit about either of the characters.

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

ngl, i feel wronged by this series. i was okay with the

non-con kiss in the previous volume because it took place in binghe’s dream realm

but

an attempted rape scene

? was i supposed to find it romantic?

i should have looked up trigger warnings for the entire series, as i will try to do with danmei from now on.

it would have been a five-star guilty pleasure read if it weren’t for

the dubious consent in that one scene

. it’s okay, i’ll go on loving the story and pretend that didn’t happen.

ahh, this was so good! i loved having murderbot solve a mystery.